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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/localism#English

localism n

1. (uncountable) Attachment to or preference for a particular local place, especially the place where one lives; hence, feelings, opinions, or policies which emphasize or focus on local phenomena; (countable) an instance of this.
   1. (politics) The policy or practice of giving more control and decision-making power to local authorities or residents, rather than to the central government; also, support for this.
2. (countable) A thing which is characteristic to a particular local place.
3. (linguistics)
   1. (countable) A linguistic feature such as a word or phrase that is unique to a locality.
   2. (uncountable) An approach to understanding linguistic expressions in terms of movement and position (sometimes abstract, for example, one who is hungry is said to be in a notional "space" of hunger).
   3. (uncountable) The belief that language functions are localized to various parts of the brain.
4. (medicine, historical, uncountable) The belief that fevers or diseases causing them originate from particular organs or parts of the body, or are due to conditions in a particular local place where patients live.

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