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Definition of Insularity

1. Noun. The state of being isolated or detached. "The insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel"

Definition of Insularity

1. n. The state or quality of being an island or consisting of islands; insulation.

Definition of Insularity

1. Noun. The quality or property of being insular. ¹

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Definition of Insularity

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Insularity

Literary usage of Insularity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Twentieth Century American: Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of by Harry Perry Robinson (1908)
"IT is no uncommon thing to hear an American speak of British insularity—the Englishman's " insular prejudices" or his " insular conceit" On one occasion I ..."

2. American Marten, Fisher, Lynx, and Wolverine: Survey Methods for Their Detection by William J. Zielinski, Thomas E. Kucera (1998)
"Population insularity Our knowledge of isolated populations is almost ... Population insularity can only be inferred because true insularity results from a ..."

3. Influences of Geographic Environment, on the Basis of Ratzel's System of by Ellen Churchill Semple (1911)
"CHAPTER XII CONTINENTS AND THEIR PENINSULAS insularity THE division of the earth's surface into 28 per cent. land e and 72 per cent. water is an all ..."

4. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"England retires into her insularity, and becomes once more comparatively a peaceful Power, while from this moment the greatness of France, which had been ..."

5. Five Years in a Persian Town by Napier Malcolm (1908)
"CHAPTER II Isolation and insularity—The town the geographical and political ... This little community is insular beyond the insularity of islands. ..."

6. History of Austral-Asia: Comprising New South Wales, Van Dieman's Island by Robert Montgomery Martin (1839)
"... form a peninsula of the vast territory of New Holland, its insularity being ascertained so recently as 1798 by Mr. Surgeon Bass and Lieutenant Flinders. ..."

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