islandism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A form of regionalism in which one's primary loyalty is to the island on which one lives and to its people.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A state of social isolation and the concomitant self-sufficiency; a failure to be aware of or rely on others.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "West Indian nationalism was challenged by islandism not simply for the ownership of "loyalty" of the people of the federated islands, and for what Max Weber has called the "title to rule";"
- "Another ramification of islandism is the strong sense that people must look after people from their own community in government, business and social obligations."
- "It also allowed competing islandisms in more “advanced” colonies to view their own advancement as being impeded by the other colonies, if not by the Federation itself."
- "At the same time, however, tensions over the reopening of the mine are fracturing the space of islandism, just as they are the space of landownership."
- "It is certainly a dialect word, possibly even that rare item, an Islandism."
- "By now the reader will be forewarned that this is not a dictionary of 'Islandisms,' of words or meanings apparently unique to Prince Edward Island."