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偏狭 — meaning in English

henkyō

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English meaning

  • illiberal adj Restricting or failing to sufficiently promote individual choice and freedom.
  • insular adjective Interested only in your own group or community and uninterested in ideas or people from outside it.
  • insularism noun Insular (withdrawn) behavior.
  • parochial adj Relating to a parish, the local area a church serves.

Senses

偏狭 is used for these senses in English:

  • illiberal Narrow-minded; bigoted.
  • insular Having an inward-looking, standoffish, or withdrawn manner.
  • insularism Insular (withdrawn) behavior.
  • parochial (derogatory) Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.

illiberal — full definition

  1. adj Restricting or failing to sufficiently promote individual choice and freedom.
  2. adj Narrow-minded; bigoted.
  3. adj Ungenerous, stingy.
  4. adj Not adhering to either liberalism or neoliberalism.

insular — full definition

  1. adjective Interested only in your own group or community and uninterested in ideas or people from outside it.
  2. adjective Of or relating to an island or islands.

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