NOUN | act | nonviolent resistance, passive resistance, nonviolence | peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing / refusing to cooperate |
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Meaning | peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing / refusing to cooperate. | |
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Synonyms | passive resistance, nonviolence | |
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 |
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