sectionalism

3 definitions found

sectionalism - 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]

sectionalism - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sectionalism
      n 1: a partiality for some particular place [syn:
           sectionalism, provincialism, localism]

sectionalism - 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