non-involvement

3 definitions found

non-involvement - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  non-involvement \non-involvement\ n.
     withdrawing from the activities of a group.
  
     Syn: non-engagement, nonparticipation.
          [WordNet 1.5]

non-involvement - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  non-involvement
      n 1: withdrawing from the activities of a group [syn: non- engagement
           , nonparticipation, non-involvement] [ant:
           engagement, involution, involvement, participation]

non-involvement - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "noninvolvement":
     a wise passiveness, abstention, anythingarianism, avoidance,
     avoiding reaction, circumvention, contemplation,
     contemplative life, cop-out, defense mechanism, do-nothing policy,
     do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dodge, dormancy, duck, elusion,
     elusiveness, equivocation, escape, evasion, evasive action,
     evasiveness, fence-sitting, forbearance, forestalling,
     forestallment, getting around, idleness, immobility, impartiality,
     inaction, inactivity, independence, indolence, inertia, inertness,
     jink, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, meditation,
     mugwumpery, mugwumpism, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness,
     nonalignment, noncommitment, nonintervention, nonparticipation,
     nonpartisanism, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance,
     nothingarianism, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance,
     passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity,
     policy, prevention, procrastination, quiescence, quietism,
     refraining, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking,
     slip, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis,
     strict neutrality, the runaround, vegetation, vita contemplativa,
     waiting game, watching and waiting, zigzag