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[syn: sectionalism, provincialism, localism]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sectionalism \Sec"tion*al*ism\, n.
A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a
section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished
from national. [U. S.]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sectionalism
n 1: a partiality for some particular place [syn:
sectionalism, provincialism, localism]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "sectionalism":
autarky, bimetallism, clannishness, clanship, cliqueyness,
cliquishness, cliquism, denominationalism,
economic self-sufficiency, esprit de corps, ethnocentricity,
exclusiveness, faction, factionalism, free enterprise, free trade,
governmentalism, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, line, localism,
managed currency, noninterference, nonintervention, nullification,
partiality, partisanism, partisanship, party line, party principle,
party spirit, planned economy, policy, polity, position,
price supports, protection, protectionism, public policy,
pump-priming, sectarianism