passive resistance

2 definitions found

passive resistance - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  passive resistance
      n 1: peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing
           to cooperate [syn: passive resistance, nonviolent resistance
           , nonviolence]

passive resistance - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  114 Moby Thesaurus words for "passive resistance":
     Quakerism, 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, 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