"barbarisation" meaning in English

See barbarisation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: barbarisations [plural], barbarization [alternative]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} barbarisation (countable and uncountable, plural barbarisations)
  1. An act which causes people to revert to a state which is primitive and uncivilized. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (Translations): варварыза́цыя (varvaryzácyja) [feminine] (Belarusian), barbarizace (Czech), barbarisation [feminine] (French), Barbariesierung (German), barbarisazione [feminine] (Italian), barbaryzacja [feminine] (Polish), barbarização [feminine] (Portuguese), варвариза́ция (varvarizácija) [feminine] (Russian), barbarizácija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), барбариза́ција [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), barbarización [feminine] (Spanish), barbarisering [common-gender] (Swedish), barbarizasyon (Turkish), варвариза́ція (varvaryzácija) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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