Urbacity

Quick meaning: Urbacity is a noun meaning (rare) An extreme or exaggerated pride in one's city; an insular view of one's city.

Meaning

(rare) An extreme or exaggerated pride in one's city; an insular view of one's city.

Example Sentences

Urbacity is a disease that attacks dwellers in cities and causes them to imagine that the world is like New York or Kankakee or Gopher Prairie or wherever they happen to live.

It’s raining on Melbourne / on another design concept / made to reassure the citizens / of that city that god-given urbacity / will protect them forever / within a Florentine fantasy.

England has suffered cruelly because she would not think, because she was case-armoured in her insular conceit and the urbacity of her politicians. Insularity would be a term too complimentary and too all-embracing to use of them

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include conceit, suburbanitis, overweening, vainglory, egotism, overurbanization.

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