insularityn.
/ɪnsjuːˈlarɪti/ 1. The state or condition of being an island, or of being surrounded by water.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > island > [noun] > condition
insularity1790
1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. Pref. p. v He discovered the Society Islands; determined the Insularity of New Zealand.
1802 J. Pinkerton Mod. Geogr. (L.) The insularity of Britain was first shown by Agricola, who sent his fleet round it.
1891 J. 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.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > insularity, provincialism > [noun]
insularity1755
provinciality1769
localism1798
provincialism1819
parish pump1840
parochialism1847
vestrydom1860
vestryism1861
Podsnappery1864
parochialness1866
vestryhood1871
insularism1880
peninsularity1882
parochiality1887
parish pumpery1902
localitis1943
bourgeois-mindedness1955
1755 H. Walpole Mem. George 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.
1861 Sat. Rev. 11 251/2 Guilty of an insularity in their pictures of English politics which the real course of those politics has rarely justified.
1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs II. 135 The proverbial insularity of the average Briton.
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