Definitions for barbarism
ˈbɑr bəˌrɪz əmbar·barism

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagerynoun

   a brutal barbarous savage act

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. barbarismnoun

   A barbaric act.

   These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue, they must be crushed or civilization will collapse.

2. barbarismnoun

   The condition of existing barbarically.

3. barbarismnoun

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Barbarismnoun

   Etymology: barbarismus, Lat.

   1. A form of speech contrary to the purity and exactness of any language.

   The language is as near approaching to it, as our modern barbarism will allow; which is all that can be expected from any now extant. John Dryden, Juvenal, Dedication.

   2. Ignorance of arts; want of learning.

   I have for barbarism spoke more
   Than for that angel knowledge you can say. William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour Lost.

   The genius of Raphael having succeeded to the times of barbarism and ignorance, the knowledge of painting is now arrived to perfection. John Dryden, Dufresnoy, Preface.

   3. Brutality; savageness of manners; incivility.

   Moderation ought to be had in tempering and managing the Irish, to bring them from their delight of licentious barbarism unto the love of goodness and civility. Edmund Spenser, State of Irel.

   Divers great monarchies have risen from barbarism to civility, and fallen again to ruin. John Davies, on Ireland.

   4. Cruelty; barbarity; unpitying hardness of heart.

   They must per force have melted,
   And barbarism itself have pity’d him. William Shakespeare, Richard II.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Barbarismnoun

   an uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness

2. Barbarismnoun

   a barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage

3. Barbarismnoun

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

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Barbarism

   Barbarism refers to a non-standard word, expression or pronunciation in a language, particularly one regarded as an error in morphology, while a solecism refers to an error in syntax. The term is used mainly for the written language. With no accepted technical meaning in modern linguistics, the term is little used by descriptive scientists.

Matched Categories

1. • Atrocity

How to pronounce barbarism?

1. Alex

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   Oliver

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of barbarism in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of barbarism in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of barbarism in a Sentence

1. Michel de Montaigne:

   Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice...for we have no other criterion of reason than the example and idea of the opinions and customs of the country we live in.

2. Saint Jerome:

   The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

3. Primo Levi:

   The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

4. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan:

   Opening fire on innocent people, exposing them to all kinds of inhumane treatment... is barbarism in the full sense of the word.

5. Steve Fitzgerald:

   We are being told that Western civilization is the problem in the world, outside of Western civilization there is only barbarism.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=barbarism
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Barbarism
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=barbarism
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barbarism
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=barbarism