barbarism
Meaning of barbarism
- absence of culture and civilization.
the collapse of civilization and the return to barbarism
- extreme cruelty or brutality.
she called the execution an act of barbarism
late Middle English: from Old French barbarisme, via Latin from Greek barbarismos, from barbarizein ‘speak like a foreigner’, from barbaros ‘foreign’.
Information about barbarism
- It is a name.
- The plural form of barbarism is: barbarisms.
- Languages in which barbarism is used:
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Hyphenation of barbarism
bar-barism
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- barbarism is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
barbarism synonyms
Meaning brutality:
brutality, barbarity, savagery
Translation of barbarism
- French: barbarisme
- Spanish: barbarismo
- Portuguese: barbarismo
- Italian: barbarismo
Words that rhyme with barbarism
Alnascharism, Caesarism, Carbonarism, Catharism, Magyarism, Phalarism, Pindarism, Poplarism, Tartarism, anovarism, antimilitarism, antiquarism, autoplagiarism, battarism, beggarism, blepharism, bovarism, boyarism, caesarism, charism, circularism, complementarism, conciliarism, czarism, dysbarism, dyspituitarism, elementarism, exemplarism, familiarism, fissiparism, formularism, functionarism, gargarism, herbarism, hyperbarbarism, hyperbarism, hyperovarism, hyperpituitarism, hyperplagiarism, hypobarism, hypopituitarism, incendiarism, insularism, irregularism, isobarism, luminarism, macarism, matrilinearism, mercenarism, microblepharism