barbarianism

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barbarism
Noun
  • The horror and the barbarism here is hard to even comprehend.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The standard choices presented to us—reason versus superstition, progress versus barbarism, past versus future, space versus Earth, growth versus stasis—were always chimeras.
    Paul Kingsnorth, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Barbarianism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barbarianism. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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