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Barbarism vs Ferity - What's the difference?

barbarism | ferity |

As nouns the difference between barbarism and ferity

is that barbarism is a barbaric act while ferity is the quality or fact of being wild or in a wild state; wildness, brutishness.

barbarism

English

Noun

  • A barbaric act.
    • These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue; they must be crushed or civilization will collapse.
  • The condition of existing barbarically.
  • * 1879, William Tecumseh Sherman, Address to the Michigan Military Academy
    • War is at best barbarism...It's glory is all moonshine.
  • 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 .

    ferity

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality or fact of being wild or in a wild state; wildness, brutishness.
  • * 1658': To burn the bones of the King of ''Edom'' for Lyme, seems no irrationall '''ferity — Sir Thomas Browne, ''Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 29)