nonviolence

See also: non-violence

English

Alternative forms

• non-violence

Etymology

From non- +‎ violence.

Noun

nonviolence (usually uncountable, plural nonviolences)

1. A philosophy that rejects the use of violence, and instead seeks to bring about change through peaceful responses even to violent acts.
   • 2014, Jamie Pitts, Principalities and Powers:

     From this theological perspective, the spectrum of violences has to give way to a spectrum of nonviolences.

Translations

philosophy that rejects violence

• Arabic: اللاعنف m
• Catalan: no-violència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 非暴力 (zh) (fēibàolì)

• Czech: nenásilí n
• Dutch: geweldloosheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: neperforto
• Finnish: väkivallattomuus (fi)
• French: non-violence (fr) f, non-résistance (fr) f (dated), non resistance f (dated)
• Galician: non violencia f
• German: Gewaltlosigkeit (de) f, Gewaltfreiheit f
• Hindi: अहिंसा (hi) f (ahinsā)
• Hungarian: erőszakmentesség (hu)
• Italian: nonviolenza (it) f
• Japanese: 非暴力 (hibōryoku)
• Kazakh: бейзорлық (beizorlyq)
• Korean: 비폭력(非暴力) (bipongnyeok)
• Latin: inviolentia f
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: ненасилство n (nenasilstvo)
• Malayalam: അഹിംസ (ml) (ahiṁsa)
• Persian: پرهیز از خشونت
• Portuguese: não-violência f
• Russian: ненаси́лие (ru) n (nenasílije), отка́з от примене́ния наси́льственных мето́дов m (otkáz ot primenénija nasílʹstvennyx metódov)
• Sanskrit: अष्ट्रा (sa) f (aṣṭrā)
• Serbo-Croatian: nenasilje n
• Spanish: abstención de la violencia f
• Swedish: icke-våld (sv) n
• Ukrainian: ненасильство (nenasylʹstvo)
• Vietnamese: bất bạo động (vi)