Barbarism

Definition: Barbarism

Barbarism

Noun

1. A brutal barbarous savage act.

Date "barbarism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Barbarism \Bar"ba*rism\, noun. [Latin expression barbarismus, Greek; compare to French barbarisme.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Barbarism

Synonyms: barbarity (n), brutality (n), savagery (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Commonalty	Barbarousness, barbarism; boeotia.
Discourtesy	Disrespect; procacity, impudence: barbarism, barbarity; misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism, conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossieret_, brusquerie; vulgarity,.
Inelegance	Noun: inelegance; stiffness; Adjective: "unlettered Muse"; barbarism; slang; solecism; mannerism; (affectation); euphuism; fustian; cacophony; words that break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw; marinism.
Neologism	Noun: neology, neologism; newfangled expression, nonce expression; back-formation; caconym; barbarism.
Solecism	Noun: solecism; bad grammar, false grammar, faulty grammar; slip of the pen, slip of the tongue; lapsus linguae; slipslop; bull; barbarism, impropriety.
Vulgarity	Noun: vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism; mauvis gout, bad taste; gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding; (discourtesy).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Barbarism

English words defined with "barbarism": benighted ♦ dark ♦ Gothicize ♦ Incivilization ♦ Rebarbarize ♦ Uncivilization ♦ Vandalic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "barbarism": BARBARISMS ♦ PURITY. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Barbarism" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (barbarism).

Domain	Title
Books	Barbarism (reference) Education and the Racist Road to Barbarism (reference) Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism (Penguin Classics) (reference) God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492-1945 (reference) Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow: The New Age Movement and Our Coming Age of Barbarism (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Herbert Spencer	Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
Oscar Wilde	America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Thomas B. Aldrich	Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	All the eras of civilisation are there in abridged edition, all the epochs of barbarism also.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Barbarism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Barbarism" is used about 102 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	102	32,309

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "barbarism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		barbarisme. (various references)

Albanian		barbarizëm (atrocity, vandalism), mizori (atrocity, cruelty, devilry, deviltry, diabolism, ferocity, inhumanity, outrage). (various references)

Arabic		‏عبارة غير فصيحة, ‏الهمجية (hooliganism), ‏إستعمال الكلمات. (various references)

Bulgarian		варварство (barbarity, heathenism, savagery, vandalism). (various references)

Chinese		野蛮时代. (various references)

Czech		barbarství (barbarity), barbarismus. (various references)

Dutch		barbarisme. (various references)

Esperanto		barbarismo. (various references)

Farsi		وحشیگری (Brutality, Savagery, Vulgarity), سخن غیرمصطلح , بربریت . (various references)

Finnish		barbaarisuus, raakalaisuus. (various references)

French		barbarisme. (various references)

German		Barbarismus, barbarei (barbarianism, barbarity), Sprachwidrigkeit, Grausamkeit (atrocity, barbarity, bloodiness, cruelty, ferocity, ghastliness, gruesomeness, heartlessness, inhumanity, savageness, savagery). (various references)

Greek		βαρβαρισμόσ. (various references)

Hebrew		ברבריות (barbarity, savagery, vandalism). (various references)

Hungarian		nyelvrontás, civilizálatlanság (rudeness), barbarizmus (savageness, savagery). (various references)

Indonesian		kebiadaban (enormity, impertinence, rudeness). (various references)

Italian		barbarie (barbarities, barbarity, barbarousness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		蛮行 (act of barbarity, brutality). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		バーバリズ� , ば�"�"う (act of barbarity, brutality, many people). (various references)

Pig Latin		arbarismbay.(various references)

Portuguese		barbarismo (atrociousness). (various references)

Romanian		barbarism, barbarie (barbarity, barbarousness, cruelty, gothicism, vandalism). (various references)

Russian		варварство (barbarity, heathenism, savageness, vandalism). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		varvarizam, divljaštvo (barbarity, savagery, truculence). (various references)

Spanish		barbarismo. (various references)

Swedish		barbari (barbarousness, savagery). (various references)

Thai		อนารยธรรม (barbarity). (various references)

Turkish		barbarlık (barbarity, gothicism, heathenism, savageness, vandalism), barbarizm, kabalık (abruptness, asperity, barbarity, boorishness, brusqueness, coarseness, crassness, crudeness, crudity, discourtesy, disrespect, earthiness, gall, gothicism, gruffness, harshness, impolite behaviour, impoliteness, incivility, indelicacy, inelegance, loutishness, rankness, roughness, rudeness, rusticity, shortness, vulgarism, vulgarity), dilin yanlış kullanılması. (various references)

Turkmen		gerbariя (r). (various references)

Ukranian		грубість (abruptness, asperity, barbarity, broadness, brutality, callousness, clumsiness, coarseness, crudity, harshness, roughness, rusticity, shagginess, truculence), варварство (barbarity, heathenism, savageness), варваризм, неуцтво (ignorance), некультурність, дикунство (savageness). (various references)

Vietnamese		tình trạng man rợ h� nh động dã man, tình trạng dã man (savageness, savagery), sự viết pha tiếng nước ngo� i lời nói thô tục, sự thiếu văn hoá sự nói pha tiếng nước ngo� i, sự ngu dốt v� thô lỗ, h� nh động thô lỗ, h� nh động man rợ. (various references)

Welsh		barbariaeth. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	barbare, barbari, barbaris, barbarismus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "barbarism": barbarisms. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Barbarism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baberahm, Barbares, barbari, barbaris, barbaros, Barbaross, barbarus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "barbarism" (pronounced bÄ"rberi'zum)
5	-er i' z u m	adventurism, amateurism, aphorism, boosterism, consumerism, counterterrorism, futurism, mannerism, mesmerism, militarism, monetarism, plagiarism, secularism, terrorism, voluntarism.
4	-i' z u m	abolitionism, absenteeism, absolutism, activism, agrarianism, alcoholism, altruism, anachronism, aneurism, animism, antagonism, astigmatism, atavism, atheism, authoritarianism, autism, baptism, bilingualism, bolshevism, botulism, cannibalism, capitalism, catechism, centralism, chauvinism, classicism, collectivism, colonialism, commercialism, communism, conservatism, corporatism, creationism, criticism, cronyism, cubism, cynicism, dandyism, defeatism, deism, despotism, determinism, diamagnetism, diastrophism, dimorphism, dogmatism, Druidism, dualism, dwarfism, dynamism, egalitarianism, egoism, egotism, electromagnetism, elitism, embolism, emotionalism, empiricism, entrepreneurialism, environmentalism, ergotism, eroticism, escapism, ethnocentrism, euphemism, evangelism, expansionism, expressionism, extremism, factionalism, fanaticism, fascism, fatalism, favoritism, federalism, feminism, ferromagnetism, fetishism, feudalism, formalism, fundamentalism, geotropism, gnosticism, gradualism, hedonism, helotism, heroism, hooliganism, humanism, hypnotism, idealism, illusionism, imperialism, impressionism, incrementalism, individualism, intellectualism, internationalism, interventionism, Irredentism, isolationism, isomorphism, jingoism, journalism, leftism, legalism, lesbianism, liberalism, lyricism, magnetism, masochism, materialism, mechanism, mercantilism, metabolism, methodism, microorganism, minimalism, modernism, monasticism, monism, monotheism, moralism, multiculturalism, multilateralism, mutualism, mysticism, narcissism, nationalism, nativism, naturalism, negativism, nepotism, neutralism, nihilism, obstructionism, opportunism, optimism, organism, ostracism, overoptimism, pacifism, paganism, parallelism, parkinsonism, parochialism, pastoralism, paternalism, patriotism, perfectionism, pessimism, pharisaism, pietism, pluralism, polymorphism, polytheism, populism, positivism, pragmatism, professionalism, protectionism, provincialism, puritanism, racialism, racism, radicalism, realism, recidivism, relativism, republicanism, revisionism, rheumatism, romanticism, sadism, satanism, sectarianism, sensationalism, separatism, sexism, skepticism, socialism, statism, stoicism, supernaturalism, surrealism, symbolism, synergism, territorialism, theism, tokenism, totalitarianism, tourism, truism, unionism, vandalism, vegetarianism, vigilantism, volunteerism, voyeurism.
3	-z u m	bosom, careerism, chasm, cytoplasm, enthusiasm, iconoclasm, ism, microcosm, neoplasm, orgasm, phantasm, prism, sarcasm, schism, spasm.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-i-m-r-r-s"
	-2 letters: ambaris.
	-3 letters: ambari, briars, mbiras, rabbis, sambar.
	-4 letters: abbas, abris, amias, amirs, arias, arras, arris, babas, barbs, barms, bimas, birrs, briar, brims, iambs, maars, mairs, maria, mbira, rabbi, raias, sabir, sabra, samba, simar, sirra.
	-5 letters: abas, abba, abri, aims, airs, amas, amia, amir, amis, arbs, aria, arms, baas, baba, bams, barb, barm, bars, bias, bibs, bima, birr, bras, brim, bris, iamb, isba, maar, mair, mars, mibs, mirs, raia, rami, rams, rias, ribs, rims, sari, sibb, sima.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-b-i-m-r-r-s"
	+1 letter: barbarisms.
	+3 letters: barbarianism.
	+4 letters: barbarianisms.
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