sectionalism
n.
devotion to local interests, advocacy of sectional concerns
Sectionalism
Sectionalism is a tendency among sections in
bureaucracy to blindly focus on the interest of a section at the expense of the whole. In national politics, sectionalism is often a precursor to
separatism. In a political context, sectionalism is loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than the nation as a whole.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
sectionalism
Noun
1. a partiality for some particular place
(synonym) provincialism, localism
(hypernym) partiality, partisanship
Sectionalism
(n.)
A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
sectionalism
Synonyms and related words:
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
Free Download Now!
