Barbarism Definition

bärbə-rĭzəm
noun
The condition of having no civilizing influences or refined culture; ignorance or crudity.
American Heritage
The use of words and expressions not standard in a language.
Webster's New World
Savage violence or cruelty.
American Heritage
A word or expression of this sort (Ex.: “youse” for “you”)
Webster's New World
The use of words, forms, or expressions considered incorrect or unacceptable.
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Other Word Forms of Barbarism

Noun

Singular:
barbarism
Plural:
barbarisms

Origin of Barbarism

  • Latin barbarismus use of a foreign tongue or of one's own tongue amiss, barbarism from Greek barbarismos from barbarizein to behave or speak like a barbarian from barbaros non-Greek, foreign (imitative of the sound of unintelligible speech)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Barbarism Sentence Examples

  • As a matter of fact, barbarism did break out after the flower had fallen from Neoplatonism.

  • War is the ultimate barbarism, the primitive belief that fighting determines who is right—but of course it doesn't.

  • He spoke, indeed, bitterly of " the state of barbarism in which the country had been left by the traffic in men."

  • Passing from the lower savage myths, of which space does not permit us to offer a larger selection, we turn to races in the upper strata of barbarism.

  • However this does not mean that these countries have lapsed into social barbarism and reverted to their supposedly natural state of primitive savagery.

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Words Starting With

BBABAR

Words Ending With

MSMISM

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Words Starting With B and Ending With M

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