provincialism

Noun

provincialism (countable and uncountable, plural provincialisms)

1. The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
   • The blacksmith's provincialism showed in his speech and manner
2. A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
   • Prose is allowed less liberty in this respect; but no one nowadays would maintain that the adoption of a provincialism into the literary dialect is absolutely prohibited.1875, Andrew Dousa Hepburn, Manual of English Rhetoric, New York: American Book Company, page 79
3. Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.

   Synonyms:

   regionalism