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   insularity

   /ˌɪnsjʊˈlarɪti/

   noun

   • 1. ignorance of or lack of interest in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience: "an example of British insularity" Similar narrow-mindednessblinkered approach/attitudeparochialismprovincialismlocalismnarrownesssmall-mindednesspettinessshort-sightednessmyopiainflexibilitydogmatismilliberalityintoleranceprejudicebigotrybiaspartisanshipsectarianismxenophobiadiscriminationisolationinaccessibilityseparationsegregationdetachmentsolitarinesslonelinessinsulationself-sufficiencyOpposite broad-mindednesstoleranceaccessibility
   • ▪ lack of contact with other people: "the stifling insularity of the children's existence"
   • 2. the state or condition of being an island: "he proved the insularity of Van Diemen's Land by circumnavigating it in 1798"

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