brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagery
(noun) a brutal barbarous savage act
Source: WordNet® 3.1
barbarism (countable and uncountable, plural barbarisms)
A barbaric act.
The condition of existing barbarically.
A word hybridizing Ancient Greek and Latin or other heterogeneous roots.
An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.
Source: Wiktionary
Bar"ba*rism, n. Etym: [L. barbarismus, Gr.; cf. F. barbarisme.]
1. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. Prescott.
2. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage. A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage. Milton.
3. An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism. The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 January 2025
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
