pacifism

English

Etymology

From French pacifisme, from pacifique; pacific +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæsɪfɪzəm/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

pacifism (countable and uncountable, plural pacifisms)

1. The conviction that it is morally wrong to settle disputes (especially between countries) by war or other violent means. [from c. 1900]
2. (video games, roguelikes) The additional challenge of winning a game without harming any enemy characters.

Synonyms

• (peaceful doctrine): Gandhism

Antonyms

• (peaceful doctrine): bellicism, militarism

Related terms

• pacific
• pacifist

Translations

doctrine that disputes should be settled without violence

• Albanian: pacifizëm (sq) m
• Arabic: سَلَامِيَّة f (salāmiyya), سِلْمِيَّة f (silmiyya)
• Armenian: պացիֆիզմ (hy) (pacʻifizm)
• Azerbaijani: pasifizm
• Belarusian: пацыфі́зм m (pacyfízm)
• Bengali: শান্তিবাদ (śantibad)
• Bulgarian: пацифи́зъм (bg) m (pacifízǎm)
• Burmese: ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးဝါဒ (ngrim:hkyam:re:wada.)
• Catalan: pacifisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 和平主義／和平主义 (zh) (hépíngzhǔyì), 和平主义 (zh) (hépíngzhǔyì)

• Czech: pacifismus (cs) m
• Danish: pacifisme c
• Dutch: pacifisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: pacismo
• Estonian: patsifism
• Finnish: pasifismi (fi), rauhanaate (fi)
• French: pacifisme (fr) m
• Galician: pacifismo m
• Georgian: პაციფიზმი (ṗacipizmi)
• German: Pazifismus (de) m
• Greek: ειρηνισμός (el) m (eirinismós), πασιφισμός (el) m (pasifismós)
• Hebrew: פָּצִיפִיזְם (he) m (patsifízm)
• Hindi: शान्तिवाद m (śāntivād), शांतिवाद m (śāntivād)
• Hungarian: pacifizmus (hu)
• Irish: síochánachas m
• Italian: pacifismo (it) m
• Japanese: 平和主義 (ja) (へいわしゅぎ, heiwashugi)
• Kazakh: пацифизм (pasifizm)
• Khmer: សន្តិនិយម (sɑnteniyum)
• Korean: 평화주의(平和主義) (ko) (pyeonghwajuui)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pasîfîzm (ku), aştîxwazî (ku), şernexwazî (ku)

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• Kyrgyz: пацифизм (patsifizm)
• Latvian: pacifisms m
• Lithuanian: pacifizmas (lt) m
• Macedonian: пацифи́зам m (pacifízam)
• Malay: faham pententeraman, pasifisme
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: пацифизм (pacifizm)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pasifisme m

  Nynorsk: pasifisme m

• Pashto: صلح پسندي f (solh-psandī)
• Persian: صلح‌جویی (solh-juyi), صلح‌طلبی (solh-talabi)
• Polish: pacyfizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: pacifismo (pt) m
• Romanian: pacifism (ro) n
• Russian: пацифи́зм (ru) m (pacifízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пацифѝзам m

  Roman: pacifìzam (sh) m

• Slovak: pacifizmus m
• Slovene: pacifizem m
• Spanish: pacifismo (es) m
• Swedish: pacifism (sv) c
• Tagalog: pasipismo
• Tajik: патсифизм (patsifizm), сулҳҷӯӣ (sulhjüi), сулҳталабӣ (sulhtalabi)
• Thai: สันตินิยม (sǎn-dtì-ní-yom)
• Turkish: pasifizm
• Turkmen: pasifizm
• Ukrainian: пацифі́зм (uk) m (pacyfízm)
• Urdu: اَمْن پَسَنْدی f (amn-pasandī)
• Uzbek: patsifizm (uz)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa hoà bình (主義和平)

References

• “pacifism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Romanian

Etymology

From French pacifisme.

Noun

pacifism n (uncountable)

1. pacifism

Declension

declension of pacifism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pacifism	pacifismul
genitive/dative	(unui) pacifism	pacifismului
vocative	pacifismule

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Swedish

Etymology

From French pacifisme.

Noun

pacifism c

1. pacifism

Declension

Declension of pacifism
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	pacifism	pacifismen	—	—
Genitive	pacifisms	pacifismens	—	—

Related terms

• pacifist
• pacifistisk