Noun

(en noun)

The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.

The blacksmith's provincialism showed in his speech and manner

(linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.

* 1875 , , Manual of English Rhetoric , New York: American Book Company, p 79:

Prose is allowed less liberty in this respect; but no one nowadays would maintain that the adoption of a provincialism into the literary dialect is absolutely prohibited.

Noun

(-)

The quality of being provincial.

*{{quote-book, year=1915, author=Dorothy Canfield, title=The Bent Twig, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Her father, who was sitting at the piano, his long fingers raised as though about to play, whirled about and cut in quickly with an unintelligible answer, "Your Aunt Victoria refers to non-existent phenomena, my dear, in order to bring home to us the uncouth provinciality in which we live." }}

*{{quote-book, year=1918, author=Robert Cortes Holliday, title=Walking-Stick Papers, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Our literary gentleman, at all events, found his task very engaging, though as a cataloguer he was much perplexed by the extraordinary informality, in one respect, of formal public papers, a curious provinciality , as he could but take it to be, of municipalities. }}