English Explanatory Dictionary

ruralism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Advocacy of rural life instead of urbanism or city living.
  2. Rural living.
  3. The state or quality of being rustic.
  4. A rural idiom or expression.

Word forms

ruralism ruralisms

Etymology

From rural + -ism.

Synonyms

rusticity backwoodsiness rurality ruralness rusticism

Related words

ruralist
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