Activism vs Riot - What's the difference?
activism | riot |
The practice of using action to achieve a result, such as political demonstration or a strike in support of or in opposition to an issue.
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, title= Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
* Shakespeare
The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
* Chaucer
* Alexander Pope
To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.
(obsolete) To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, etc.
* Daniel
* Alexander Pope
As nouns the difference between activism and riot
is that activism is the practice of using action to achieve a result, such as political demonstration or a strike in support of or in opposition to an issue while riot is wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.As a verb riot is
to create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.activism
English
(wikipedia activism)Noun
(en noun)Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.}}
riot
English
(wikipedia riot)Noun
(en noun)- His headstrong riot hath no curb.
- Venus loveth riot and dispense.
- the lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day
Derived terms
* rioter * run riotVerb
(en verb)- The nuclear protesters rioted outside the military base.
- Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, / Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.
- No pulse that riots , and no blood that glows.
