Dictionary (n.) The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.Thesaurus Jim Crow alien apartheid authoritarianism bigotry blind side blind spot blinders closed mind color bar cramped ideas division ethnocentrism exclusiveness fanaticism foreigner hideboundness illiberality insularism insularity insulation isolation know-nothingism little-mindedness littleness mean mind meanness narrow sympathies narrow views narrow-mindedness narrowness nearsightedness odium theologicum out-group outcast outsider persona non grata pettiness petty mind provincialism purblindness quarantine race hatred racial segregation seclusion segregation separation shortsightedness shut mind smallness snobbishness straitlacedness stranger stuffiness tightness uncatholicity xenophobia |