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Barbarity vs Barbarism - What's the difference?

barbarity | barbarism |

As nouns the difference between barbarity and barbarism

is that barbarity is the state of being barbarous; brutality while barbarism is a barbaric act.

barbarity

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being barbarous; brutality
  • (countable) A barbaric act
  • (uncountable) crudity
  • (countable) A crude act

    • 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 .