barbarization
Descent into savagery
Barbarization is the process of becoming barbarous—less civilized, more crude or brutal.
The word typically describes cultural or social decline: the barbarization of public discourse, the barbarization of warfare.
It can also refer to the corruption of language or standards: Critics lamented the barbarization of English by text-speak.
Systematic infliction of cruelty
- savageryExtreme, violent cruelty
- atrocityUnforgivable mass cruelty
- ferocityExtreme violent intensity
- inhumanityExtreme cruelty toward others
ruthlessness · bestiality · cruelty · truculence · wildness · bloodthirst · mercilessness · viciousness
Decline in condition
- philistinismContempt for cultural refinement
- coarseningBecoming more crude
- uncouthnessLack of polish
- boorishnessCrude, uncouth conduct
vulgarity · crudeness · roughening · primitivism · brutishness · provincialism · parochialism · unsophistication
Dishonest abuse of power
- distortionTwisting from original state
- adulterationCorrupting by foreign substances
- contaminationIntroduction of impurities
- debasementDiminishing worth or purity
vulgarization · bastardization · degradation · simplification · pidginization · deterioration · debasing · solecism
Willful property damage
- desecrationViolating something sacred
- defacementDamaging an appearance
- profanationViolation of sanctity
- spoliationDestruction or plundering
ravaging · pillaging · sacking · plundering · ruination · devastation · desolation · razing
Adopting another group's customs
- integrationCombining into a whole
- enculturationAcquiring cultural norms unconsciously
- adoptionLegal family formation
- incorporationForming a legal entity
absorption · syncretism · intermingling · blending · amalgamation · naturalization · hybridization
brutalization
Systematic infliction of cruelty
inhumanity · ruthlessness · bestiality · cruelty · truculence · wildness · bloodthirst · mercilessness · viciousness · brutality
degradation
Decline in condition
- philistinismContempt for cultural refinement
- coarseningBecoming more crude
- uncouthnessLack of polish
boorishness · vulgarity · crudeness · roughening · primitivism · brutishness · provincialism · parochialism · unsophistication · debasement
corruption
Dishonest abuse of power
- distortionTwisting from original state
- adulterationCorrupting by foreign substances
- contaminationIntroduction of impurities
debasement · vulgarization · bastardization · degradation · simplification · pidginization · deterioration · debasing · solecism
vandalism
Willful property damage
- desecrationViolating something sacred
- defacementDamaging an appearance
- profanationViolation of sanctity
spoliation · ravaging · pillaging · sacking · plundering · ruination · devastation · desolation · razing · wrecking
acculturation
Adopting another group's customs
- integrationCombining into a whole
- enculturationAcquiring cultural norms unconsciously
- adoptionLegal family formation
incorporation · absorption · syncretism · intermingling · blending · amalgamation · naturalization · hybridization
barbarizationcivilization
Advanced organized human society
civilizing · enlightenment · progress · refinement · cultivation
barbarizationhumanization
Attributing personal characteristics
civilizing · moral progress · ennoblement · uplift · domestication
barbarizationhumanization
Attributing personal characteristics
moral progress · enlightenment · liberalization · democratization · emancipation
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