different between regionalism vs provincialism

English

Etymology

regional +? -ism

Noun

regionalism (countable and uncountable, plural regionalisms)

1. Affection, often excessive, for one's own region and to everything related to it.
2. Political tendency to concede forms of politico-administrative autonomy to regions.
3. (countable, linguistics) A word or phrase originating in, characteristic of, or limited to a region.

Synonyms

• (linguistics): provincialism

Hyponyms

• (linguistics; English regionalism): Americanism, Australianism, Briticism, Britishism, Canadianism

Related terms

• regionalist
• regionism

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French régionalisme

Noun

regionalism n (plural regionalisme)

1. regionalism

Declension

English

Etymology

From French provincialisme

Noun

provincialism (countable and uncountable, plural provincialisms)

1. The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.

   The blacksmith's provincialism showed in his speech and manner

2. (linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
   • 1875, Andrew Dousa Hepburn, Manual of English Rhetoric, New York: American Book Company, p 79:

     Prose is allowed less liberty in this respect; but no one nowadays would maintain that the adoption of a provincialism into the literary dialect is absolutely prohibited.

Synonyms

• (linguistics): regionalism

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French provincialisme

Noun

provincialism n (plural provincialisme)

1. provincialism

Declension

Related terms

• provincial