Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Advocacy of rural life instead of urbanism or city living.

  2. (countable, uncountable)Rural living.

    a rural characteristic or trait

  3. (countable, uncountable)The state or quality of being rustic.

  4. (countable)A rural idiom or expression.

    a rural idiom or expression

Origin

From rural + -ism.

From rural + -ism.

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Forms

plural: ruralisms
Singularruralism
Pluralruralisms

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
state or quality of being rural or rustic:rusticitybackwoodsinessruralityruralnessrusticism
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedruralist

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
ruralism — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto