Barbarism /(bär"bȧ*rĭz'm)/

Bar·ba·rism

Barbarism

n.
  1. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.
  2. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.
    A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage.
  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.