nonviolence – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
nonviolence
n.
lack of violence; nonaggressive behavior, passivity
Nonviolence
Nonviolence is the personal practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition. It comes from the belief that hurting people, animals or the environment is unnecessary to achieve an outcome and refers to a general philosophy of abstention from violence based on moral, religious or spiritual principles.
nonviolence
Noun
1. peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate
(synonym) passive resistance, nonviolent resistance
(hypernym) direct action
(hyponym) hunger strike
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Synonyms and related words:
a wise passiveness, abnegation, abstinence, calm, calmness, conservatism, constraint, contemplation, contemplative life, continence, control, cool, dispassion, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, evenness, gentleness, golden mean, happy medium, idleness, immobility, impartiality, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, irenicism, judiciousness, juste-milieu, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, lenity, meden agan, meditation, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolent resistance, nothing in excess, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, peaceableness, peaceful coexistence, policy, procrastination, prudence, quiescence, quietism, repose, restraint, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, serenity, sobriety, stability, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, steadiness, temperance, temperateness, tranquillity, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unpugnaciousness, vegetation, via media, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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