insular

Definitions


[ˈɪnsjʊlə], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience
(e.g: a stubbornly insular farming people)

- relating to or from an island
(e.g: goods of insular origin)

- relating to the insula of the brain


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (as a noun denoting an islander): from late Latin insularis, from insula ‘island’




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