'Barbarism' definitions:
Definition of 'barbarism'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Barbarism'
From: GCIDE
- Barbarism \Bar"ba*rism\ (b[aum]r"b[.a]*r[i^]z'm), n. [L. barbarismus, Gr. barbarismo`s; cf. F. barbarisme.]
- 1. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage. [1913 Webster]
- A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism. [1913 Webster]
- The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. --G. Campbell. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'barbarism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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