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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a partiality for some particular place [syn: sectionalism, provincialism, localism]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1847 an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sectionalism Sec"tion*al*ism, n. A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national. [U. S.]

Moby Thesaurus

autarky, bimetallism, clannishness, clanship, cliqueyness, cliquishness, cliquism, denominationalism, economic self-sufficiency, esprit de corps, ethnocentricity, exclusiveness, faction, factionalism, free enterprise, free trade, governmentalism, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, line, localism, managed currency, noninterference, nonintervention, nullification, partiality, partisanism, partisanship, party line, party principle, party spirit, planned economy, policy, polity, position, price supports, protection, protectionism, public policy, pump-priming, sectarianism