What's the difference between barbarism and incivility?

Barbarism


Definition:

  • (n.) An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.
  • (n.) A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.
  • (n.) An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
  • (2) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
  • (3) Bryan Hopkins Sheffield • David Cameron says he wants to tackle segregation between schools ( Four steps to thwart creation of ‘a barbaric realm’ , 21 July).
  • (4) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
  • (5) There is a policy review process, a manifesto and the small matter of winning another election between here and catastrophe, but the sheer barbarism of the outlined idea is breathtaking.
  • (6) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
  • (7) Alexis Tsipras, the former student radical who leads the party, has called the latest €130bn rescue plan "barbaric" and "an agreement of poverty and wretchedness".
  • (8) The "might is right" alternative – the playground resort to "brute force" recalling Europe's past "descent into barbarism" – was no alternative at all.
  • (9) On Thursday, the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, had described the massacre as a “barbaric crime”, and said it was being looked at as a hate crime.
  • (10) And as Kelly observed, Walker’s position is massively unpopular, and for good reason: the idea that a woman should be coerced by the state to carry a pregnancy to term even at the risk of her life is the purest barbarism.
  • (11) "The only answer to the mess we are in is social uprising and the end of all these barbaric measures."
  • (12) He warned of the “medieval barbarism” of the terrorist group Islamic State, formerly known as Isil or Isis in its efforts to set up a “terrorist state”.
  • (13) An hour-long chronology of barbarism that the group posted online in June featured an opening sequence copied straight from the 2009 film about the Iraq war, The Hurt Locker .
  • (14) None of those medical manuscripts from that collection was preserved after a barbaric setting fire on the Oriental Institute.
  • (15) "Barbarism," wrote Alain Finkielkraut not long ago, "is not the inheritance of our pre-history.
  • (16) London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, said there would be more police on the streets of the capital on Tuesday after the “barbaric and sickening attack”.
  • (17) Anyone in any doubt about this organisation [Isis] can now see how truly repulsive it is and barbaric it is.
  • (18) These barbaric terrorists have lost 30% of the territory they once held in Iraq.
  • (19) His barbarism against his own people created an enormous vacuum.
  • (20) The ruling African National Congress's youth league described the video as "barbaric".

Incivility


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness.
  • (n.) Any act of rudeness or ill breeding.
  • (n.) Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Like many in the town who voted FN, he complains about the lack of opportunities, the "little incivilities" he has encountered in the town centre – people throwing rubbish and youths smoking hashish.
  • (2) The municipal agents of the new brigade will be tasked with tracking down and punishing all the incivilities that spoil life for Parisians,” the deputy mayor, Colombe Brossel, told journalists.
  • (3) Steve Baker tempered his “polishing the poo” to “polishing the deal” and even the usually polite Jacob Rees-Mogg was roused to near incivility.
  • (4) To some people this is a cause of regret and disorientation - a change that they associate with the growing incivility of modern urban life.
  • (5) It has become a catch-all term for everything from minor disagreements through to annoying incivility through to criminal behaviour such as death threats.
  • (6) Now the city authorities are planning a dedicated “incivility brigade” to hand out warnings and fines to persuade offenders to be better behaved.
  • (7) The degree of verbal aggression and incivility in much online discourse is shocking.
  • (8) [W]here the left say that silence emboldens the racists, as I watched I wondered if the opposite wasn’t true – if this theatre of barely suppressed violence was animating them.” The objection to counter-protests often seems to be born more of a horror of incivility than of a clear appraisal of the longer term trends in a polity where nothing, not even the centre ground, is static.
  • (9) His abrasive and apparently autocratic leadership style sparked a campaign of whispers describing foul temper tantrums, incivility to staff and intemperate demands.