vandalism

English

The destruction of glass windows and doors is a form of vandalism.

Etymology

From French vandalisme, first used by Henri Grégoire to decry the pillage and destruction of art in the course of the French Revolution, in reference to the East Germanic tribe of the Vandals, which looted Rome in 455.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvændəlɪzm̩/

Noun

vandalism (countable and uncountable, plural vandalisms)

1. Willful damage or destruction of any property with no other purpose than damage or destruction of said property.

   As we turned down the street I was appalled by the vandalism; spray-paint and smashed windows that were everywhere.

   Synonym: vandalization

Derived terms

• antivandalism
• cybervandalism

 

Related terms

• vandal
• vandalise, vandalize

 

Translations

needless damage or destruction of property

• Arabic: تَخْرِيب m (taḵrīb)
• Belarusian: вандалі́зм m (vandalízm)
• Bulgarian: вандали́зъм (bg) m (vandalízǎm)
• Catalan: vandalisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蓄意破壞／蓄意破坏, 蓄意破坏 (xùyìpòhuài)

• Czech: vandalismus (cs) m, vandalství n
• Danish: vandalisme c
• Dutch: vandalisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: vandalismo (eo)
• Estonian: vandalism (et)
• Finnish: vandalismi (fi), ilkivalta (fi)
• French: vandalisme (fr) m
• Galician: vandalismo (gl) m
• Georgian: ვანდალიზმი (vandalizmi), ბარბაროსობა (barbarosoba)
• German: Vandalismus (de) m
• Greek: βανδαλισμός (el) m (vandalismós)
• Hebrew: ונדליזם ?
• Hungarian: vandalizmus (hu)
• Ido: vandaleso, vandalajo
• Interlingua: vandalismo
• Irish: loitiméireacht f
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• Italian: vandalismo (it) m
• Japanese: 荒らし (ja) (arashi), ヴァンダリズム (vandarízumu)
• Korean: 반달리즘 (ko) (bandallijeum)
• Latin: corruptiō (la) f, ruptiō f, vandalismus m
• Macedonian: вандали́зам m (vandalízam), ди́вјаштво n (dívjaštvo)
• Malay: vandalisme
• Norwegian: hærverk ?
• Polish: wandalizm (pl) ?
• Portuguese: vandalismo (pt) m
• Romanian: vandalism (ro) n
• Russian: вандали́зм (ru) m (vandalízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вандалѝзам m

  Roman: vandalìzam (sh) m

• Spanish: vandalismo (es) m, gamberrada f
• Swedish: vandalism (sv) c
• Tagalog: bandalismo, pambababoy
• Tibetan: གཅག་གཏོར་བྱེད་ཡག (gcag gtor byed yag)
• Ukrainian: вандалі́зм (uk) m (vandalízm)
• Vietnamese: phá hoại (vi)
• Volapük: vandalöm
• Welsh: fandaliaeth (cy) f

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Swedish

Noun

vandalism c

1. vandalism

Declension

Declension of vandalism
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	vandalism	vandalismen	—	—
Genitive	vandalisms	vandalismens	—	—