INSULARITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insularity mean? 

• INSULARITY (noun)
  The noun INSULARITY has 1 sense:

1. the state of being isolated or detached

  Familiarity information: INSULARITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSULARITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being isolated or detached

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

detachment; insularism; insularity; insulation

Context example:

the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel

Hypernyms ("insularity" is a kind of...):

isolation (a state of separation between persons or groups)

Derivation:

insular (suggestive of the isolated life of an island)

insular (relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island)

 Context examples 

It was the old tragedy of insularity trying to serve as mentor to the universal.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was the same insularity of mind that made the ancient Jew thank God he was not born a woman, and sent the modern missionary god-substituting to the ends of the earth; and it made Ruth desire to shape this man from other crannies of life into the likeness of the men who lived in her particular cranny of life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Hers was that common insularity of mind that makes human creatures believe that their color, creed, and politics are best and right and that other human creatures scattered over the world are less fortunately placed than they.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)