the way of life characteristic of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded

book-loving Belle was burning to escape the provincialism of her village

concern for one's own area or region at the expense of national or supranational unity

the President warned that focusing on relations with close neighbours would lead to political provincialism

a word or phrase peculiar to a local area

if an idiom is a provincialism, it is likely to be found in a dialect dictionary

the degree to which plant or animal communities are restricted to particular areas

the lack of provincialism in Silurian fauna