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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Parochialism \Pa*ro"chi*al*ism\, n. The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

parochialism n 1: a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

57 Moby Thesaurus words for "parochialism": Jim Crow, alien, apartheid, authoritarianism, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, closed mind, color bar, cramped ideas, division, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, fanaticism, foreigner, hideboundness, illiberality, insularism, insularity, insulation, isolation, know-nothingism, little-mindedness, littleness, mean mind, meanness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, odium theologicum, out-group, outcast, outsider, persona non grata, pettiness, petty mind, provincialism, purblindness, quarantine, race hatred, racial segregation, seclusion, segregation, separation, shortsightedness, shut mind, smallness, snobbishness, straitlacedness, stranger, stuffiness, tightness, uncatholicity, xenophobia