| NOUN | act | nonviolence, passive resistance, nonviolent resistance | peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing / refusing to cooperate |
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| Sounds | naanvay'ahlahns | |
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| Rhymes | abeyance ... virulence: 273 rhymes with ahns... | |
| Meaning | peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing / refusing to cooperate. | |
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| Synonyms | passive resistance, nonviolent resistance | |
| Narrower | Satyagraha | The form of nonviolent resistance initiated in India by Mahatma Gandhi in order to oppose British rule and to hasten political reforms |
| hunger strike | A voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest | |
| Broader | direct action | A protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands |
| Spanish | resistencia pasiva | |
| Catalan | no-violència, resistència no-violenta, resistència passiva | |
| Adjectives | nonviolent | abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence |
| nonviolent | achieved without bloodshed | |
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