uncivilityn.
Now rare.
Absence or lack of civilization or of civility.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun]
barbarousness1549
Barbary1564
barbarity1570
barbarism1584
incivility1584
uncivility1598
wildness1639
ferity1646
the (also a) state of nature1650
savagism1665
savagery1782
semi-barbarism1817
barbarization1822
incivilization1823
semibarbarianism1828
savagedom1844
barbarianism1854
uncivilizedness1879
uncivilization1880
bruteness1883
semi-savagedom1887
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Immodestia, immodestie, intemperancie, vnciuilitie.
1612 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise ii. ii. 121 His crabbed lookes signifie the sauage vnciuility of the people in those parts.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xiii. 73 Their uncivility and barbarous properties tell us that they are most like the Tartars of any.
a1704 T. Brown Dispensary in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 75 If thee woul't have no Excuse made for thy Uncivility, I have done.
1830 A. Cunningham Lives Brit. Painters (ed. 2) II. 78 The uncivility of his opponents.
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