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[syn: passive resistance, nonviolent resistance, nonviolence]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
passive resistance
n 1: peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing
to cooperate [syn: passive resistance, nonviolent
resistance, nonviolence]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "passive resistance":
Quakerism, a wise passiveness, acquiescence, amenability,
challenge, civil disobedience, combative reaction, complaint,
compliance, contemplation, contemplative life, counteraction,
defiance, demur, disobedience, dispute, dissent, dissentience,
do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy,
fractiousness, frowardness, humbleness, humility, idleness,
immobility, inaction, inactivity, indiscipline, indocility,
indolence, inertia, inertness, infraction, infringement,
insubordination, intractability, laissez-aller, laissez-faire,
laissez-faireism, lawbreaking, lawlessness, meditation, meekness,
naughtiness, negativism, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness,
noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation, noninvolvement,
nonobedience, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence,
nonviolent resistance, obedience, objection, obstinacy, opposition,
pacifism, paralysis, passive self-annihilation, passiveness,
passivism, passivity, policy, procrastination, protest, quiescence,
quietism, reaction, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy,
recalcitration, recusancy, refractoriness, reluctance,
remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency,
repulse, repulsion, resignation, resistance, revolt, stagnancy,
stagnation, stand, standpattism, stasis, submission,
submissiveness, transgression, uncomplainingness,
uncooperativeness, unduteousness, undutifulness, unsubmissiveness,
vegetation, violation, vita contemplativa, waiting game,
watching and waiting, waywardness, willful disobedience,
withstanding