Parochial means interested only in your own small corner of the world. A parochial outlook, parochial concerns, narrow and parochial.
It is a criticism and a sharp one, since calling a view parochial says it cannot see past the end of the street. The literal sense is to do with a parish, which is exactly the image the criticism uses.
1adjectiveparochialInterested only in your own small corner of the world.
“The local newspaper is rather parochial, full of stories about lost cats and church fairs.”
parochial is a quality.
The same root gives parish, the small district round one church. Parochial is caring about your own parish and not one step past it.
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Latin parochialis comes from parochia, a parish, from Greek paroikia, a neighbouring dwelling.
Ancient Greek
πάροικος — neighbouring, neighbour
Latin
parochialis
Anglo-Norman
parochial
English, today
parochial
Built from
From Anglo-Norman parochial and its source Latin parochialis, an alteration of paroecialis (“of a church province”), from paroecia, from Hellenistic Greek παροικία (“stay in a foreign land”), later “community, diocese”, from Ancient Greek πάροικος (“neighbouring, neighbour”), from παρα- + οἶκος (“house”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA