Nonviolence Synonyms

nŏn-vīə-ləns
Peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. passive resistance
  2. irenicism
  3. nonviolent resistance

Words Related to Nonviolence

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. civil disobedience
  2. non-violence
  3. nonviolent
  4. pacifism
  5. non-violent
  6. ahimsa

Nonviolence Sentence Examples

  • Parents can teach children nonviolence by controlling their own tempers.

  • Black people had been taught nonviolence; it was deep in us.

  • He also linked Gandhian principled nonviolence with the pragmatic nonviolent direct action of the syndicalists.

  • One is the approach of pure nonviolence, which cannot readily or easily attract large masses, for it requires extraordinary discipline and courage.

  • How did the samurai square their occupations with the general Buddhist principle of nonviolence?

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