Dictionary Definition
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English
Noun
- A barbaric act.
- These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue, they must be crushed or civilization will collapse.
- The condition of
existing barbarically.
- 1879, William Tecumseh Sherman, Address to the Michigan
Military Academy
- War is at best barbarism...It's glory is all moonshine.
- 1879, William Tecumseh Sherman, Address to the Michigan
Military Academy
- An error in language use within a single word, such as a
mispronunciation.
- 2002, Hyman, Bad Grammar in Context, New England Classical
Journal, 29, p. 94-101
- In the jargon of the ancient grammarian, penacilin would be a barbarism.
- 2002, Hyman, Bad Grammar in Context, New England Classical
Journal, 29, p. 94-101
Translations
barbaric act
- German: Barbarei
condition of existing barbarically
- German: Barbarei
error in language use
Extensive Definition
Barbarism may refer to:
- Barbarism (derived from barbarian), the condition to which a society or civilization may be reduced after a societal collapse, relative to an earlier period of cultural or technological advancement; the term may also be used pejoratively to describe another society or civilization which is deemed inferior in some way.
- Barbarism (grammar), a non-standard word or expression.
- Barbarism, a form of art also known as primitivism.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Gothicism, Irish bull,
Neanderthalism,
age of ignorance, animality, antiphrasis, bad taste,
barbarity, barbarousness, benightedness, benightment, bestiality, bombasticness, brutality, brutishness, cacology, cacophony, clumsiness, coarseness, colloquialism, corruption, crudeness, cumbrousness, dark, dark age, darkness, dysphemism, error, foreignism, gracelessness, grossness, harshness, heathenism, heaviness, ill breeding,
ill-balanced sentences, impoliteness, impropriety, impurity, incivility, inconcinnity, incorrectness, indecorousness, inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, lack of finish,
lack of polish, lapse,
leadenness, localism, malaprop, malapropism, misconstruction,
missaying, misusage, misuse, neologism, paganism, philistinism, pompousness, ponderousness, poor
diction, roughness,
rudeness, savagery, savagism, sesquipedalianism,
sesquipedality,
shibboleth, slang, slip, slipshod construction,
solecism, spoonerism, stiltedness, taboo word,
tastelessness,
troglodytism,
turgidity, uncivilizedness,
uncouthness,
uncultivatedness,
uncultivation,
unculturedness,
unenlightenment,
uneuphoniousness,
ungracefulness,
ungrammaticism,
unrefinement,
unseemliness,
unwieldiness,
vernacularism,
vulgarism, vulgarity, wildness