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Ruralism
noun
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Noun
- 1 Advocacy of rural life instead of urbanism or city living. countable, uncountable
"Ruralism conserves its isolation,..."
- 2 a rural characteristic or trait wordnet
- 3 Rural living. countable, uncountable
"Here, for the first time, had Marcella been brought face to face with the agricultural world as it is--no stage ruralism, but the bare fact in one of its most pitiful aspects."
- 4 a rural idiom or expression wordnet
- 5 The state or quality of being rustic. countable, uncountable
"The beautifully hypnotic patterns that have become an earmark, of the Ritual Trio are well suited to Bang's varied solo flights; on the album's affecting "Pedro," Bang's rough violin scrapes convey a backwoodsy ruralism, recalling the rootsy fiddle playing of southern prewar black string bands, while the title track with its propulsive near-swing finds him putting out a wild, Ornette-ish sound splash."
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- 6 Advocacy of rural life instead of urbanism or city living. wordnet
- 7 A rural idiom or expression. countable
Etymology
From rural + -ism.
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