[1795–1805, for literal sense; brutal + -ism; in reference to architecture first used by British architects Alison Smithson (1928–93)and Peter Smithson (1923–2003) in 1953]This word is first recorded in the period 1795–1805. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: crunch, hopscotch, mirage, sharpshooter, steeplechase-ism is a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form action nounsfrom verbs (baptism). On this model, -ism is used as a productive suffix in the formation of nouns denoting action or practice,state or condition, principles, doctrines, a usage or characteristic, devotion oradherence, etc. (criticism; barbarism; Darwinism; despotism; plagiarism; realism; witticism; intellectualism)