different between barbarism vs barbarianism

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??(?)b???z(?)m/
• (General American) enPR: bär?b?-r?z'm, IPA^(key): /?b??b????zm?/

Noun

barbarism (countable and uncountable, plural barbarisms)

1. A barbaric act.

   These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue; they must be crushed or civilization will collapse.

2. The condition of existing barbarically.
3. A word hybridizing Ancient Greek and Latin or other heterogeneous roots.
4. An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.
   • 2002, Hyman, Bad Grammar in Context, New England Classical Journal, 29, p. 94-101

     In the jargon of the ancient grammarian, penacilin would be a barbarism.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French barbarisme

Noun

barbarism n (plural barbarisme)

1. barbarism

Declension

English

Etymology

barbarian +? -ism

Noun

barbarianism (countable and uncountable, plural barbarianisms)

1. A primitive or simplistic ethos or societal condition; barbarism.

   Some postulate that after a nuclear war, humanity would fall into a state of barbarianism.

2. Behaviour appropriate to a barbarian, that is uncivilized, brutal, or crude.

   The teacher accused the bullies of barbarianism when she caught them taunting the girl in a wheelchair.

Synonyms

• (primitive ethos or societal condition): degeneracy, reductionism, savagery, state of nature, simplicity
• (behaviour of a barbarian): degeneracy, rudeness, savagery, wildness, unsophistication

Translations