'passive resistance' definitions:
Definition of 'passive resistance'
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noun
Peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate [syn: passive resistance, nonviolent resistance, nonviolence]
Synonyms of 'passive resistance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Quakerism,
- 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