Violence vs Nonviolent - What's the difference?
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Extreme force.
Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
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(figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
(obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation
Not violent; without violence; following a philosophy of nonviolence; the opposite of violent.
* {{quote-news, author=(Jesse Jackson), title=In the Ferguson era, Malcolm X’s courage in fighting racism inspires more than ever, work=(The Guardian) (London), date=20 February 2015
, passage=When Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965 – 50 years ago on Saturday – I was an activist in the civil rights movement of Martin Luther King, a man of peace who led the nonviolent protests that brought down segregation in America, and ushered in the civil rights and voting rights acts.}}
As a noun violence
is extreme force.As an adjective nonviolent is
not violent; without violence; following a philosophy of nonviolence; the opposite of violent.violence
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Noun
Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
Hypernyms
* (extreme force) forceAntonyms
* peace, nonviolenceSee also
* domestic violence * reverse domestic violence ----nonviolent
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Adjective
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