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passive resistance

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Noncooperation or noncompliance with the laws or directives of an authority, particularly of a government or occupying power, as a form of protest against injustice.

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  • noun peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate

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synonyms (114)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Quakerism
  2. a wise passiveness
  3. acquiescence
  4. amenability
  5. challenge
  6. civil disobedience
  7. combative reaction
  8. complaint
  9. compliance
  10. contemplation
  11. contemplative life
  12. counteraction
  13. defiance
  14. demur
  15. disobedience
  16. dispute
  17. dissent
  18. dissentience
  19. do-nothing policy
  20. do-nothingism
  21. do-nothingness
  22. dormancy
  23. fractiousness
  24. frowardness
  25. humbleness
  26. humility
  27. idleness
  28. immobility
  29. inaction
  30. inactivity
  31. indiscipline
  32. indocility
  33. indolence
  34. inertia
  35. inertness
  36. infraction
  37. infringement
  38. insubordination
  39. intractability
  40. laissez-aller
  41. laissez-faire
  42. laissez-faireism
  43. lawbreaking
  44. lawlessness
  45. meditation
  46. meekness
  47. naughtiness
  48. negativism
  49. neutralism
  50. neutrality
  51. neutralness
  52. noncompliance
  53. nonconformity
  54. noncooperation
  55. noninvolvement
  56. nonobedience
  57. nonparticipation
  58. nonresistance
  59. nonviolence
  60. nonviolent resistance
  61. obedience
  62. objection
  63. obstinacy
  64. opposition
  65. pacifism
  66. paralysis
  67. passive self-annihilation
  68. passiveness
  69. passivism
  70. passivity
  71. policy
  72. procrastination
  73. protest
  74. quiescence
  75. quietism
  76. reaction
  77. rebuff
  78. recalcitrance
  79. recalcitrancy
  80. recalcitration
  81. recusancy
  82. refractoriness
  83. reluctance
  84. remonstrance
  85. renitence
  86. renitency
  87. repellence
  88. repellency
  89. repulse
  90. repulsion
  91. resignation
  92. resistance
  93. revolt
  94. stagnancy
  95. stagnation
  96. stand
  97. standpattism
  98. stasis
  99. submission
  100. submissiveness
  101. transgression
  102. uncomplainingness
  103. uncooperativeness
  104. unduteousness
  105. undutifulness
  106. unsubmissiveness
  107. vegetation
  108. violation
  109. vita contemplativa
  110. waiting game
  111. watching and waiting
  112. waywardness
  113. willful disobedience
  114. withstanding

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. direct action

hyponyms (2)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. Satyagraha
  2. hunger strike

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