provincianismo

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /pɾobinθjaˈnismo/ [pɾo.β̞ĩn̟.θjaˈniz.mo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /pɾobinsjaˈnismo/ [pɾo.β̞ĩn.sjaˈniz.mo]
• Rhymes: -ismo
• Syllabification: pro‧vin‧cia‧nis‧mo

Noun

provincianismo m (uncountable)

1. provincialism
   • 2015 October 15, “Análisis”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Pero para imaginar algo así, primero hay que leer los reglamentos y luego quitarse la costra del provincianismo rampante, tan propio de los Estados-nación cursis y en declive.

     But to imagine something like this, you first have to read the regulations and then remove the scab of rampant provincialism, so typical of tacky and declining nation-states.

Further reading

• “provincianismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10