regionalism

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Etymology

From regional +‎ -ism.

Noun

regionalism (countable and uncountable, plural regionalisms)

1. 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.

2. (politics) The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to regional governments.
3. (countable, linguistics) A word or phrase originating in, characteristic of, or limited to a region.
4. 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.

Synonyms

• (linguistics): provincialism
• (political): federalism, provincialism, statism

Hyponyms

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

Related terms

• regionalist
• regionism

Translations

affection

• Catalan: regionalisme m
• Finnish: nurkkakuntaisuus (fi), regionalismi (fi)
• Galician: rexionalismo m
• Malayalam: പ്രാദേശികവാദം (prādēśikavādaṁ)
• Marathi: प्रादेशिकता f (prādeśiktā)
• Romanian: regionalism (ro) n
• Russian: ме́стничество (ru) (méstničestvo)
• Spanish: regionalismo (es) m

political tendency

• Arabic: الجِهَوِيَّة f (al-jihawiyya)
• Catalan: regionalisme m
• Galician: rexionalismo m
• German: Regionalismus (de) m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} regionalismo (it)
• Malay: regionalisme, faham keserantauan
• Polish: regionalizm (pl) m
• Romanian: regionalism (ro) n
• Russian: райони́рование (ru) (rajonírovanije)
• Spanish: regionalismo (es) m
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa khu vực

linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism

• Czech: regionalismus (cs) m, oblastní slovo n
• French: régionalisme (fr)
• Galician: rexionalismo m
• German: Regionalismus (de) m
• Polish: regionalizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: regionalismo (pt) m
• Romanian: regionalism (ro) n
• Russian: провинциали́зм (ru) (provincialízm), го́вор (ru) m (góvor)
• Spanish: regionalismo (es) m
• Vietnamese: từ ngữ địa phương

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Translations to be checked

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 區域主義／区域主义 (qūyù zhǔyì)

• Manx: ^{(please verify)} ardjynys m

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French régionalisme. By surface analysis, regional +‎ -ism.

Noun

regionalism n (plural regionalisme)

1. regionalism

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	regionalism	regionalismul		regionalisme	regionalismele
genitive-dative	regionalism	regionalismului		regionalisme	regionalismelor
vocative	regionalismule			regionalismelor