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Definitions for Barbarism
[1] a barbarous or uncivilized state or condition.
[2] a barbarous act; something belonging to or befitting a barbarous condition.
[3] the use in a language of forms or constructions felt by some to be undesirably alien to the established standards of the language.
[4] such a form or construction: Some people consider “complected” as a barbarism.
[5] a brutal, coarse, or ignorant act
[6] the condition of being backward, coarse, or ignorant
[7] a substandard or erroneously constructed or derived word or expression; solecism
[8] any act or object that offends against accepted taste
Words related to Barbarism
inhumanity, atrocity, brutality, cruelty, barbarity, coarseness, impropriety, solecism, vulgarism, misuse, corruption, provincialism, catachresis, malapropism, localism, misusage, vernacularism
Words nearby Barbarism
barbados pride, barbara, barbarian, barbarianize, barbaric, barbarism, barbarity, barbarize, barbarossa, barbarossa i, barbarossa ii
Origin of Barbarism
1570–80; < Latin barbarismus < Greek barbarismós foreign way of speaking. See barbarous, -ism
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Other words from Barbarism
hy·per·bar·bar·ism , noun
Word origin for Barbarism
C16: from Latin barbarismus error of speech, from Greek barbarismos , from barbaros barbarous
Synonyms for Barbarism
atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, inhumanity, catachresis, coarseness, corruption, impropriety, localism, malapropism, misuse, provincialism, solecism, vulgarism, misusage, primitive culture, uncivilizedness, vernacularism, vernacularity