01 n. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.
-
1.
An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.
-
2.
A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.“A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage.” — Milton.
-
3.
An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism. See: Solecism“The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism.” — G. Campbell.