Meaning of urbacity | Babel Free

Definitions

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

rare, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

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