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n. An act, trait, or custom characterized by ignorance or crudity.

n. The use of words, forms, or expressions considered incorrect or unacceptable.

n. A specific word, form, or expression so used.

n. A barbaric act.

n. The condition of existing barbarically.

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

n. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.

n. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.

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

n. An offense against purity of style or language; originally, the mixing of foreign words and phrases in Latin or Greek; hence, the use of words or forms not made according to the accepted usages of a language: limited by some modern writers on rhetoric to an offense against the accepted rules of derivation or inflection, as hisn or hern for his or her, gooses for geese, goodest for best, pled for pleaded, proven for proved.

n. A word or form so used; an expression not made in accordance with the proper usages of a language.

n. An uncivilized state or condition; want of civilization; rudeness of life resulting from ignorance or want of culture.

n. An act of barbarity; an outrage.

n. Synonyms Barbarism, Solecism, etc. See impropriety.

n. In anthropology, the conditions of barbarian society. See barbarian, a., 5.

n. a brutal barbarous savage act

"I use the term barbarism in contradistinction to civilization, and very respectfully refer to authorities of repute in justification of this use of the word, both to designate the quality of the _thing_, and the precise locality of its fittest application; for although"

culture   

atrocity    inhumanity   

misuse    solecism    catachresis    malapropism    Gothicism   

solecism   

barbarousness    outrage   

barbarity    brutality    savagery    oppression    anarchy