nonviolence (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *nonviolence*:
NOUN	act	nonviolence, passive resistance, nonviolent resistance	peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing / refusing to cooperate

nonviolence > pronunciation
Sounds	naanvay'ahlahns
Rhymes	abeyance ... virulence: 273 rhymes with ahns...

English > *nonviolence*: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaning	peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing / refusing to cooperate.
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
Narrower	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
Adjectives	nonviolent	achieved without bloodshed

HyperDic: nonviolence