Parochial vs Indigenous - What's the difference?
parochial | indigenous |
Pertaining to a parish.
Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.
* 1918 , 1st of February, "
* 1969 , : A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830 , p 341:
(chiefly, of living things) Born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.
* 1862 , , "Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree":
Innate, inborn.
* 1852 , , Uncle Tom's Cabin , ch. 18:
* 1883 , , "Stephen Archer" in Stephen Archer and Other Tales :
As adjectives the difference between parochial and indigenous
is that parochial is pertaining to a parish while indigenous is (chiefly|of living things) born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.parochial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- 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.
- Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial .
indigenous
English
Adjective
(-)- Not only the Indian, but many indigenous insects, birds, and quadrupeds, welcomed the apple-tree to these shores.
- She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race.
- He had all the tricks of a newspaper boy indigenous in him.