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noun. The condition of having no civilizing influences or refined culture; ignorance or crudity.

noun. Savage violence or cruelty.

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noun. The use of words, forms, or expressions considered incorrect or unacceptable.

noun. A specific word, form, or expression so used.

noun. An offense against purity of style or language; originally, the mixing of foreign words and phrases in Latin or Greek; hence, the use of words or forms not made according to the accepted usages of a language: limited by some modern writers on rhetoric to an offense against the accepted rules of derivation or inflection, as hisn or hern for his or her, gooses for geese, goodest for best, pled for pleaded, proven for proved.

noun. A word or form so used; an expression not made in accordance with the proper usages of a language.

noun. An uncivilized state or condition; want of civilization; rudeness of life resulting from ignorance or want of culture.

noun. An act of barbarity; an outrage.

noun. Synonyms Barbarism, Solecism, etc. See impropriety.

noun. In anthropology, the conditions of barbarian society. See barbarian, a., 5.

noun. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.

noun. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.

noun. An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.

noun. A barbaric act.

noun. The condition of existing barbarically.

noun. An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.

noun. a brutal barbarous savage act

"I use the term barbarism in contradistinction to civilization, and very respectfully refer to authorities of repute in justification of this use of the word, both to designate the quality of the _thing_, and the precise locality of its fittest application; for although"

culture  

atrocity  inhumanity  

absurdity  anarchy  barbarity  bigotry  bloodshed  

Gothicism  Irish bull  Neanderthalism  age of ignorance  animality  

Gallicism  Gothicism  Grecism  Latinism  catachresis  

solecism