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noun

clannishness n.

A tendency to associate with only a select group.

Synonyms: cliquishness, exclusiveness.

A tendency to associate with only one's own clan; the propensity to display the sentiments, habits, and prejudices of one's own clan.

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Etymology of 'Clannishness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clannishness" Quotes from Famous Books

... not speaking of rebel to rebel, or loyalist to loyalist, or comrade to comrade, or clansman to clansman in trouble—that goes without saying—but of man and woman to man and woman in trouble, the highest form of clannishness, the clannishness that embraces the whole of this wicked world—the Clan ...

— The Rising of the Court • Henry Lawson

... Personally I cared little what soul-outpourings of Harold were pirated by Selina—she was pretty sure to get hold of them sooner or later—and indeed I rather welcomed the diversion as favourable to the undisturbed pursuit of Art. But the clannishness of sex has its unwritten laws. Boys, as such, are sufficiently put upon, maltreated, trodden under, as it is. Should they fail to hang together in perilous times, what disasters, what ignominies, may not be looked for? Possibly ...

— Dream Days • Kenneth Grahame

... indeed there was a strange antique clannishness about these "Sons of the Covenant" which in the modern world, where the ends of the ages meet, is Socialism. They prayed for one another while alive, visited one another's bedsides when sick, buried one another when dead. No mercenary hands poured the yolks of eggs over their dead faces ...

— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... further increase in the foreign population of the city there will be danger from race and religious clannishness. ...

— The Making of Arguments • J. H. Gardiner