Barbarism vs Incivility - What's the difference?
barbarism | incivility |
A barbaric act.
The condition of existing barbarically.
* 1879, William Tecumseh Sherman, Address to the Michigan Military Academy
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
(label) The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness.
(label) Any act of rudeness or ill-breeding.
(label) Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism.
As nouns the difference between barbarism and incivility
is that barbarism is a barbaric act while incivility is (label) the quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness.barbarism
English
Noun
- These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue; they must be crushed or civilization will collapse.
- War is at best barbarism...It's glory is all moonshine.
- In the jargon of the ancient grammarian, penacilin would be a barbarism .