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What is the difference between demonstration and violence?

demonstration | violence |

As nouns the difference between demonstration and violence

is that demonstration is the act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something while violence is extreme force.

demonstration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
  • An event at which something will be demonstrated.
  • I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
  • A public display of group opinion.
  • A show of military force.
  • A mathematical proof.
  • * , s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
  • He read the proposition. So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.

    violence

    English

    Noun

  • Extreme force.
  • Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • Widespread fighting.
  • (figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
  • (obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation
  • Hypernyms

    * (extreme force) force

    Antonyms

    * peace, nonviolence

    See also

    * domestic violence * reverse domestic violence ----