insularity

 
Pronunciation: /ˌɪnsjʊˈlarɪti/

noun

[mass noun]
  • 1ignorance of or lack of interest in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one’s own experience: an example of British insularity
  • lack of contact with other people: the stifling insularity of the children’s existence
  • 2the state or condition of being an island: he proved the insularity of Van Diemen’s Land by circumnavigating it in 1798