# ruralism

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. Advocacy of rural life instead of urbanism or city living.
2. Rural living.
3. The state or quality of being rustic.
4. A rural idiom or expression.

## Etymology
From rural + -ism.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/ruralism