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Insularity   Listen
noun
Insularity  n.  
1.
The state or quality of being an island or consisting of islands; insulation. "The insularity of Britain was first shown by Agricola, who sent his fleet round it."
2.
Narrowness or illiberality of opinion; prejudice; exclusiveness; as, the insularity of the Chinese or of the aristocracy.





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"Insularity" Quotes from Famous Books



... the contrary it is ignorance and insularity, which causes most of us to miss this fact. But it certainly is the fact that religious war is in itself much more rational than patriotic war. I for one have often defended and even encouraged patriotic ...
— The New Jerusalem • G. K. Chesterton


Words linked to "Insularity" :   detachment, insularism, isolation, insular, insulation


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