barbarousnessn.
/ˈbɑːbərəsnɪs/ The quality of being barbarous; the degree of barbarism or barbarity:
a. in language.
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the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > corrupt language > condition of being
barbarousness1549
barbarism1578
barbarity1706
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun]
roughnessa1398
beggarliness1542
crabbedness1546
barbarousness1549
grossness1563
rusticity1565
barbarism1578
inconcinnity1616
ungracefulness1658
incuriosity1661
incomptness1669
uncouthness1672
unpoliteness1684
barbarity1706
inelegance1726
inelegancy1727
scabrousness1727
asperity1779
crudity1885
ineloquence1894
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 2 Cor. Argt. f. xliiiv He confesseth his rudenes and barbarousnes in language.
1564 N. Haward in tr. Eutropius Briefe Chron. To Rdr. sig. B.iiv The barbarousnesse..of thys our Englyshe tounge.
1861 T. Wright Ess. Archæol. II. xxiii. 257 The barbarousness of monkish Latin.
b. in behaviour, condition, culture, or art.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun]
barbarousness1549
Barbary1564
barbarity1570
barbarism1584
incivility1584
uncivility1598
wildness1639
ferity1646
the (also a) state of nature1650
savagism1665
savagery1782
semi-barbarism1817
barbarization1822
incivilization1823
semibarbarianism1828
savagedom1844
barbarianism1854
uncivilizedness1879
uncivilization1880
bruteness1883
semi-savagedom1887
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Pviiv That wil bryng the Realme into a verye barbarousnes, and vtter decay of learnynge.
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. vi. 147 From the barbarousness of the country.
1866 Sat. Rev. 3 Mar. 256/1 A substantial resemblance..between the barbarousness of different periods.
c. in cruelty; = barbarity n. 2.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > barbaric
Turkishness1545
barbarousness1548
barbariousnessa1568
barbarism1603
ferity1614
Moorism1620
barbarity1685
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark v. f. 4 Cruell barbarousnesse of certain nations.
1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified 460 Its Piracies..and its Barbarousness to its captives.
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