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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a partiality for some particular place;
[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