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English
Etymology
From regional + -ism.
Noun
regionalism (countable and uncountable, plural regionalisms)
- Affection, often excessive, for one's own region and to everything related to it.
2018, Eric D. Duke, Building a Nation: Caribbean Federation in the Black Diaspora:Whereas organizations such as the WIFA and CU confirmed regional West Indian identifications and represented the connections between transnational West Indian organizations and black diaspora politics, the JPL, as a transnational Jamaican organization, demonstrates that the regionalism that took root among many West Indian expatriates in these years did not negate all expatriates' islandist perspectives and allegiances.
- (politics) The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to regional governments.
- (countable, linguistics) A word or phrase originating in, characteristic of, or limited to a region.
- Regional character, local color.
1986 April 19, Michael Bronski, “Two Views on Desert Hearts: Sexy? or simply Slow?”, in Gay Community News, page 9:Director Deitch has filled the sountrack with country music classics […] and this adds to the regionalism of the film as well as to the feeling which buoys the movie up from simplistic formula to romantic reverie.
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French régionalisme. By surface analysis, regional + -ism.
Noun
regionalism n (plural regionalisme)
- regionalism
Declension
Declension of regionalism