Definition for Barbarism:

• A word or expression not in good use; uncivilized state; rudeness of manners; ignorance of art and literature.

Synonyms for Barbarism:

• n.

  •
  • intimidation,
  • violence,
  • rage.
  •
  • corruption,
  • style,
  • solecism.
  •act (noun)
  • barbarity,
  • barbarism.
  •bad form (noun)
  • in felicity,
  • in-felicity,
  • in-elegances,
  • in-elegance,
  • in elegances,
  • bad-form,
  • in-felicities,
  • in elegance,
  • in felicities.
  •brutality (noun)
  • savagenesses,
  • choke holds,
  • un-feelingness,
  • unfeelingnesses,
  • un feelingness,
  • ruthlessnesses,
  • un-feelingnesses,
  • un feelingnesses,
  • bloodthirstinesses,
  • brutishnesses.
  •crudity, savagery, especially in speech (noun)
  • malapropism,
  • Misusage,
  • catachresis,
  • Vernacularism,
  • primitive culture,
  • atrocity,
  • provincialism,
  • uncivilizedness,
  • vernacularity,
  • coarseness,
  • localism.
  •cruelty (noun)
  • in sensitiveness,
  • mercilessnesses,
  • heartlessnesses,
  • hard heartednesses,
  • in-sensitivenesses,
  • un-kindnesses,
  • callousnesses,
  • hard heartedness,
  • unkindnesses,
  • Masochisms,
  • un kindness,
  • un kindnesses,
  • in-sensibility,
  • in sensibility,
  • in sensitivenesses,
  • fiendishnesses,
  • hardheartednesses,
  • in-sensibilities,
  • insensitivenesses,
  • un-kindness,
  • in sensibilities,
  • murderousnesses,
  • in-sensitiveness,
  • hard-heartednesses.
  •outrage (noun)
  • mis doings,
  • in dignities,
  • ravishings,
  • in-dignities,
  • mis-doings,
  • out-rages,
  • mis-doing,
  • out-rage,
  • mis doing,
  • mis chief,
  • mis chiefs,
  • out rages,
  • out rage.
  •pitilessness (noun)
  • unmercifulness,
  • pitilessness,
  • Stoniness,
  • hellishness.
  •sectarianism (noun)
  • heterodoxy,
  • demonolatry,
  • demonism,
  • iconolatry,
  • non-religiousness,
  • idolatry,
  • Denominationalist,
  • heresy,
  • dissidence,
  • pantheistic,
  • non-belief,
  • sectarianism,
  • paganism,
  • factionalism,
  • fetishism,
  • bohemian,
  • nonconformity,
  • non-orthodoxy,
  • heathenism,
  • atheism.
  •solecism (noun)
  • mis takes,
  • mis take,
  • mis-takes,
  • cacologies,
  • mis-take.
  •truculence (noun)
  • truculence.
  •unbecomingness (noun)
  • un becomingnesses,
  • un becomingness,
  • un-becomingness,
  • un-becomingnesses.
  •unfitness (noun)
  • un fitnesses,
  • un fitness,
  • un-fitness,
  • un-fitnesses.
  •unseemliness (noun)
  • un seemlinesses,
  • un seemliness,
  • un-seemliness,
  • un-seemlinesses.
  •unsuitability (noun)
  • un suitability,
  • un suitabilities,
  • un-suitabilities,
  • un-suitability.
  •unsuitableness (noun)
  • unsuitableness.
  •vulgarism (noun)
  • noxiousness,
  • falsification,
  • rottenness,
  • falsifications.
  •vulgarity (noun)
  • outlandishness,
  • brazenness,
  • profanity,
  • animality,
  • boorishness,
  • offensiveness,
  • lowness,
  • rudeness,
  • sleaze,
  • depravity,
  • rankness,
  • roughness,
  • colloquialism,
  • ignominy,
  • vernacular,
  • garishness,
  • gaudiness,
  • broadness,
  • saltiness,
  • crassness,
  • gracelessness,
  • vulgarity,
  • repulsiveness,
  • shamelessness,
  • baseness,
  • clumsiness,
  • Rawness,
  • commonness,
  • tastelessness,
  • tactlessness,
  • Earthiness,
  • tawdriness,
  • grossness,
  • crudeness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • harassment,
  • sadism,
  • despotism,
  • bullying,
  • rejection,
  • full-court press,
  • alienation,
  • bloodlust,
  • killer instinct,
  • acidity,
  • thuggery,
  • road rage,
  • oppression,
  • exploitation,
  • injustice,
  • bestiality,
  • cynicism,
  • maltreatment,
  • saber rattling,
  • Elder Abuse,
  • duress,
  • self-interest,
  • poison,
  • coercion.
  •
  • vulgarism,
  • misrule,
  • culture,
  • tyranny,
  • ignorance,
  • evil,
  • excess.
  •
  • abuse.
  •culture
  • civilization.

Paraphrases for Barbarism:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    barbarity.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    savagery, barbarity.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    cruelty.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    brutal.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    barbaric, barbarous, barbarian, savage.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    barbaric, barbarous, brutality, barbarian, inhumanity, savage.

Antonyms for Barbarism:

• n.

  • crudity, savagery, especially in speech
    kindness, praise, niceness.

Barbarism Sentence Examples:

• Now subject to no control but the superintending agency of the General Government, exercised with the sole view of preserving peace, they may proceed unmolested in the interesting experiment of gradually advancing a community of American Indians from barbarism to the habits and enjoyments of civilized life.

• No doubt before them men had felt the pressure of barbarism within and without, and had framed dreams of something better, but it was the Greeks who first defined and conceived the ideal and so made it possible to realize it.

Hyponym for Barbarism:

• n.

  • act
    inhumanity, atrocity.