Synonyms of parochialism

parochialism

noun

as in insularity

Related Words

• insularity
• provincialism
• bigotry
• dogmatism
• intolerance
• sectarianism
• insularism
• narrow-mindedness
• illiberality
• illiberalism
• partisanship
• small-mindedness
• prejudice
• bias
• opinionatedness
• illiberalness
• intolerantness
• partiality

Dissimilar Words

• liberalism
• tolerance
• liberality
• progressivism
• broad-mindedness
• progressiveness
• open-mindedness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of parochialism

This proposal, coupled with the disincentive at the federal level that increased the price of the visas from $215 to $100,000, shows a parochialism that does not foster open and productive inquiry. — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2026

Within a few years of leaving Texas, Rauschenberg had upended everything the place had meant to him, smashing through the parochialism of small-town Southern life, where necks were broken in Jesus’ name, and families indentured or murdered. — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025

Central government has done nothing to pressure the council to abandon its parochialism. — Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 24 Mar. 2025

But his critics on the left, many of them of color, have long pointed out these very blind spots in his work—the parochialism of his politics and his reticence where Muslim, and particularly Palestinian, death and suffering were concerned. — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024