Pacifism

3 definitions found

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

  pacifism \pacifism\ n.
     the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable.
  
     Syn: passivism.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  


     2. The belief that all international disputes can be settled
        by arbitration.
        [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pacifism
       n 1: the doctrine that all violence in unjustifiable [syn: {passivism}]
       2: the belief that all international disputes can be settled by
          arbitration

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

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "pacifism":
     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, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance,
     nothing in excess, 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