bar·ba·rism /ˈbɑrbəˌrɪzəm/
野蠻,未開化
Bar·ba·rism n.
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.
The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. --G. Campbell.
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barbarism
n : a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: brutality, barbarity,
savagery]