regionalism
- Noun. Affection, often excessive, to one's own region and to everything related to it.
- Noun. Political tendency to concede forms of politico-administrative autonomy to regions.
- Noun. (countable, linguistics) A word or phrase originating in, characteristic of, or limited to a region.
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