barbarism
noun
[ ˈbɑːbərɪz(ə)m ]
• absence of culture and civilization.
• "the collapse of civilization and the return to barbarism"
• extreme cruelty or brutality.
• "she called the execution an act of barbarism"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French barbarisme, via Latin from Greek barbarismos, from barbarizein ‘speak like a foreigner’, from barbaros ‘foreign’.
