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incivilization

incivilization is the alternative form of uncivilization.

Meaning of uncivilization

Noun

uncivilization (uncountable)

  1. The quality of not being civilized.
    • The park is not just a place of lost civilizations, but vanished uncivilization, a Manhattan scarcely marked by human hands.2008 March 22, Jim Dwyer, “In a City Park, a Crime Against Nature”, in New York Times

Origin of incivilization

From in- + civilization.

Questions about incivilization

What is incivilization the alternative form of?
Incivilization is the alternative form of uncivilization.

Words near incivilization in the dictionary

  1. incitresses
  2. incivil
  3. incivilisation
  4. incivilities
  5. incivility
  6. incivilization
  7. incivilly
  8. incivism
  9. incivisms
  10. incke
  11. incl

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incivilization (page history and authors); uncivilization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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