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Civic vs Parochial - What's the difference?

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Civic is a related term of parochial.


As adjectives the difference between civic and parochial

is that civic is civic while parochial is pertaining to a parish.

civic

English

(wikipedia civic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, or belonging to a city, a citizen, or citizenship; municipal or civil.
  • Thousands of people came to the Civic''' Center to show off their '''civic pride.
  • Of or relating to the citizen, or of good citizenship and its rights and duties.
  • civic duty

    Derived terms

    * civic centre * civics * civic-minded

    parochial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a parish.
  • Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.
  • The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel .
    Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters.
  • * 1918 , 1st of February, "
  • But for men of principle and honour and straightforward thought there could be no middle course and no paltering with petty issues of party or parochial advantage.
  • * 1969 , : A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830 , p 341:
  • Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial .