ruralisms

Noun

ruralism (countable and uncountable, plural ruralisms)

1. Advocacy of rural life instead of urbanism or city living.
   • Ruralism conserves its isolation,...1998, Nels Anderson, Raffaele Rauty, “Urbanism as a way of life”, in On hobos and homelessness, →ISBN, page 277
2. Rural living.
   • Here, for the first time, had Marcella been brought face to face with the agricultural world as it is--no stage ruralism, but the bare fact in one of its most pitiful aspects.1894, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Marcella
3. The state or quality of being rustic.
   • The beautifully hypnotic patterns that have become an earmark, of the Ritual Trio are well suited to Bang's varied solo flights; on the album's affecting "Pedro," Bang's rough violin scrapes convey a backwoodsy ruralism, recalling the rootsy fiddle playing of southern prewar black string bands...1994 April 8, Peter Margasak, “Kahil El'Zabar, Malachi Favors, Billy Bang”, in Chicago Reader

   Synonyms:

   rusticity, backwoodsiness, rurality, ruralness, rusticism

4. (countable) A rural idiom or expression.