- 看过 insularity 的人也看了 :
- intolerance
- bigotry
- bias
- prejudice
insularity 的定义
- the state or condition of being an island:Great Britain, because of its insularity, was only reachable by sea until 1785, when the first balloon successfully crossed the English Channel by air.
- the state or condition of dwelling on or being situated on an island:None of the other aspects of the fossil show adaptations common among island dwellers, so insularity is not a good argument to explain its form.
- the state or condition of being detached or isolated:Growing populations have in many places made the insularity of religious communities difficult to preserve.
- the state or condition of being narrow-minded or provincial:Our neighbors' insularity was both psychological and cultural: they had no interest whatsoever in literature, history, art, government, science, film, or the outdoors.
insularity 近义词
等同于 narrowness
更多insularity例句
- Traders — who call themselves, affectionately, an offensive term for people with developmental disorders — built their own insular subculture as they egged one another on for profit, camaraderie and the thrill of the hunt.
- SwimSwam broke the news of Keller’s apparent involvement in the attack Monday, blasting the news well beyond the insular world of elite, Olympic-level swimming.
- They didn’t do so by embracing narrow, insular efforts geared toward self-preservation.
- But Brown has no interest in insularity or convenient resolutions.
- He has spent years alleging bias and insularity in the scientific community.
- Finally, Mor insists that the real insularity exists not on the American Jewish, but on the Palestinian side.
- The insularity extends to the “papabile”—the roll call of possible, even likely popes.
- This insularity is a long-held and well-known habit of this administration when setbacks happen, and it's not admirable.
- It has at least this to its credit that we view our insularity with less composure.
- We see now that there are two sides to this blessing of insularity.
- For this I hope not to be accused of what is sometimes perhaps facetiously called ‘insularity’.
- They know how badly they need help and they do mean to be as good to us as their benignant insularity will permit.
- You, in this country, are subjected to the British insularity in weights and measures; you use the foot and inch and yard.