uncivilization

English

Alternative forms

incivilisation, incivilization, uncivilisation

Etymology

From un- +‎ civilization.

Noun

uncivilization (uncountable)

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