NONVIOLENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nonviolence mean? 

• NONVIOLENCE (noun)
  The noun NONVIOLENCE has 1 sense:

1. peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate

  Familiarity information: NONVIOLENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NONVIOLENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

nonviolence; nonviolent resistance; passive resistance

Hypernyms ("nonviolence" is a kind of...):

direct action (a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nonviolence"):

hunger strike (a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest)

Satyagraha (the form of nonviolent resistance initiated in India by Mahatma Gandhi in order to oppose British rule and to hasten political reforms)

Derivation:

nonviolent (achieved without bloodshed)

nonviolent (abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence)