/bahr"beuh riz'euhm/ , n.
1. a barbarous or uncivilized state or condition.
2. a barbarous act; something belonging to or befitting a barbarous condition.
3. the use in a language of forms or constructions felt by some to be undesirably alien to the established standards of the language.
4. such a form or construction: Some people consider "complected" as a barbarism.
[ 1570-80; barbarismus barbarismós foreign way of speaking. See BARBAROUS, -ISM ]