Word Meanings - SECTIONALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.

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• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• SECTIONALITY
  The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• DISPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
• SECTIONALIZE
  To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay .
• SECTIONALISM
  A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• SECTIONIZE
  To form into sections.
• NATIONALNESS
  The quality or state of being national; nationality. Johnson.
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• LOCALIZE
  To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. H. Spencer. Wordsworth.
• COUNTRY CLUB
  A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
• DISTINGUISH
  di- = dis- + stinguere to quench, extinguish; prob. orig., to prick, and so akin to G. stechen, E. stick, and perh. sting. Cf. 1. Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark
• LOCALLY
  With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.
• PECULIAR
  1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
• LOCALITY
  The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places. (more info) 1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits. It is thought that the soul
• COUNTRYSIDE
  A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore.
• DISTINGUISHABLE
  1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas.
• DISTINGUISHMENT
  Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• INTERNATIONAL
  1. Between or among nations; pertaining to the intercourse of nations; participated in by two or more nations; common to, or affecting, two or more nations. 2. Of or concerning the association called the International. International code
• IMAGINATIONALISM
  Idealism. J. Grote.
• INDISTINGUISHING
  Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. Johnson.
• INTERNATIONALISM
  1. The state or principles of international interests and intercourse. 2. The doctrines or organization of the International.
• DENOMINATIONAL
  Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society. "Denominational differences." Buckle.
• INTERDENOMINATIONAL
  Occurring between or among, or common to, different denominations; as, interdenominational fellowship or belief.
• BISECTION
  Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.