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Barbarism vs Violence - What's the difference?

barbarism | violence |

As nouns the difference between barbarism and violence

is that barbarism is a barbaric act while violence is extreme force.

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 .

    violence

    English

    Noun

  • Extreme force.
  • Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • Widespread fighting.
  • (figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
  • (obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation

    • Related terms

    * violent * violate * violation

    Hypernyms

    * (extreme force) force

    Antonyms

    * peace, nonviolence

    See also

    * domestic violence * reverse domestic violence ----