the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The state or quality of being an island or consisting of islands; insulation.
n. Narrowness or illiberality of opinion; prejudice; exclusiveness.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The state of being an island, or of being insular in situation or character; restriction within or as within an island; that which is characteristic of an island or of the inhabitants of an island; insularism.
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n. the state of being isolated or detached
Word Usage
"In her conversations about the UIC chancellorship she posed her alertness to a multicultural, multiethnic future against what she calls the insularity of that campus."