localism
Meanings
noun
- Attachment to a particular local place; feelings or policies which emphasize local phenomena.
- A linguistic feature that is unique to a locality.
- The belief that language functions are localized to various parts of the brain.
- An approach to understanding expressions in terms of position and movement (sometimes abstract, e.g. one who is hungry is in a notional "space" of hunger).
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Etymology
From local + -ism.
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