About The Word Barbarism
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Barbarism
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What's The Definition Of Barbarism?
[n] a brutal barbarous savage act
Synonyms | Synonyms for Barbarism: barbarity | brutality | savagery Related Terms | Find terms related to Barbarism: 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 | Gothicism | gracelessness | grossness | harshness | heathenism | heaviness | ill breeding | ill-balanced sentences | impoliteness | impropriety | impurity | incivility | inconcinnity | incorrectness | indecorousness | inelegance | inelegancy | infelicity | Irish bull | lack of finish | lack of polish | lapse | leadenness | localism | malaprop | malapropism | misconstruction | missaying | misusage | misuse | Neanderthalism | 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 See Also | atrocity | inhumanity Barbarism In Webster's Dictionary \Bar"ba*rism\, n. [L. barbarismus, Gr. ?; cf. F.
barbarisme.]
1. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners;
ignorance of arts, learning, and literature;
barbarousness. --Prescott.
2. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.
A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of
marriage. --Milton.
3. An offense against purity of style or language; any form
of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular
language. See {Solecism}.
The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign
term in any of their writers with the odious name of
barbarism. --G. Campbell.
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