Regionalism

Origin

regional + -ism

Full definition of regionalism

Noun

regionalism

(countable and uncountable; plural regionalisms)

Affection, often excessive, to one's own region and to everything related to it.
Political tendency to concede forms of politico-administrative autonomy to regions.
(countable, linguistics) A word or phrase originating in, characteristic of, or limited to a region.

Synonyms

(linguistics) provincialism

Hyponyms

(linguistics) Americanism
(linguistics) Briticism, Britishism
(linguistics) Canadianism

Related terms

regionalist