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Regionalism vs Regionalization - What's the difference?

regionalism | regionalization |

As nouns the difference between regionalism and regionalization

is that regionalism is affection, often excessive, to one's own region and to everything related to it while regionalization is an act, way or process of regionalizing.

regionalism

English

Noun

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

    • Synonyms

    * (linguistics) provincialism

    Hyponyms

    * (linguistics) Americanism * (linguistics) Briticism, Britishism * (linguistics) Canadianism

    Related terms

    * regionalist

    regionalization

    English

    Alternative forms

    * regionalisation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act, way or process of regionalizing
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