Synonyms for barbarism
Most common
cruelty brutality savagery barbarity rudeness incivility outrage blood lust
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
2. Rudeness
Other
outrage, blood lust, impropriety, slang, heathenism, solecism, vulgarism, inconcinnity, savagism, brutism
Definitions
- n. 1
A barbaric act.
These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue; they must be crushed or civilization will collapse.
- n. 2
The condition of existing barbarically.
Forms
- Plural
- barbarisms → barbarities, savageries, brutalities, cruelties…
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A dialect is a special mode of speaking a language peculiar to some locality or class, not recognized as in accordance with the best usage; a barbarism is a perversion of a language by ignorant foreigners, or some usage akin to that.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- cruelty The prisoners were treated with monstrous cruelty.
- brutality Mennad has never seen any atrocities or brutality.
- savagery I don't tolerate savagery, much less in a country that claims to be democratic.
- rudeness We cannot put up with their rudeness any longer.
By length
- 5 letters
- slang1
- 7 letters
- cruelty2, outrage2, brutism
- 8 letters
- savagery4, rudeness2, solecism, savagism
- 9 letters
- brutality4, vandalism4, barbarity4, vulgarism
- 10 letters
- incivility5, heathenism
- 11 letters
- impropriety5
- 12 letters
- barbarianism, inconcinnity
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cruelty2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- barbarisme
- Italiano
- barbarismo
- Deutsch
- Unwort
- Català
- barbarisme