Nonviolence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  nonviolence \nonviolence\ n.
     The theory, doctrine, or practice of peaceful resistance to a
     government by fasting or refusing to cooperate.
  
     Syn: passive resistance.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nonviolence
       n : peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing
           to cooperate [syn: {passive resistance}, {nonviolent
           resistance}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "nonviolence":
     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