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insularity|ɪnsjuːˈlærɪtɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ity; cf. F. insularité (Littré).]
1. The state or condition of being an island, or of being surrounded by water.
1790Cook's Voy. I. Pref. 5 He discovered the Society Islands, determined the Insularity of New Zealand. 1802Pinkerton Geog. (L.), The insularity of Britain was first shown by Agricola, who sent his fleet round it. 1891J. Winsor Columbus xviii. 425 If Varnhagen's opinion..be accepted as knowledge of the time, the insularity of Cuba was necessarily proved even at that early day.
2. The condition of living on an island, and of being thus cut off or isolated from other people, their ideas, customs, etc.; hence, narrowness of mind or feeling, contractedness of view.
1755H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II 12 Dec., [Lord Barrington] owned..that our foreign dominions do take off from our insularity..on the other hand, their connection with us takes away the insularity of Hanover. 1861Sat. Rev. XI. 251/2 Guilty of an insularity in their pictures of English politics which the real course of those politics has rarely justified. 1893Earl Dunmore Pamirs II. 135 The proverbial insularity of the average Briton. |