urbacity

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An extreme or exaggerated pride in one's city; an insular view of one's city. rare,uncountable
    — The Englishman has quite justly been accused of insularity. That in itself is bad, but there is a compound insularity for which no word of English exists, because the state of mind is not realised. It is the citified insularity of London, London’s “urbacity.” I had to coin a word for it.

词源

Unknown, but claimed to be a coinage of Percy Adolphus Vaile in the early 20th century (see quote below). Compare urban, -ity, city. Not to be confused with urbanity.
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