Usually means: Practice of resolving conflict peacefully.
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  1. nonviolence: Merriam-Webster
  2. nonviolence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nonviolence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nonviolence: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. nonviolence: Wiktionary
  8. nonviolence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  10. nonviolence: Infoplease Dictionary
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  12. nonviolence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Nonviolence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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▸ noun:  A philosophy that rejects the use of violence, and instead seeks to bring about change through peaceful responses even to violent acts.

Similar:
passive resistance, world peace, anarcho-pacifism, pacificism, non-aggression principle, noninterventionism, pacifism, anti-militarism, sarvodaya, nonmaterialism, more...

Opposite:
violence, aggression, hostility

Adjectives:
active, gandhian, militant, creative, absolute, christian, true, pure, total, complete, principled

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Similar:
passive resistance, world peace, anarcho-pacifism, pacificism, non-aggression principle, noninterventionism, pacifism, anti-militarism, sarvodaya, nonmaterialism, more...

Opposite:
violence, aggression, hostility

Adjectives:
active, gandhian, militant, creative, absolute, christian, true, pure, total, complete, principled

Colors:
    white,     lavender,     light blue,     soft pink,     pastel green, more...



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