🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

paroquialismo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: paroquialismo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Parochialism/pəˈroʊkiəlɪzəm/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Precisamos superar este paroquialismo para crescer no mercado global."

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As noun
  1. 1

    A narrow outlook or restriction of scope to a local area or specific context, with little regard for broader or global perspectives.

    "The company's failure to expand internationally was largely due to the management's deeply ingrained parochialism."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from 'parochial' (relating to a church parish), from Late Latin 'parochialis', from Greek 'paroikia' (abutting area, diocese). The meaning shifted from administrative church boundaries to a narrow, limited outlook or provincialism.

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