pacifism

pacifism
    n 1: the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable [syn:
         {pacifism}, {pacificism}, {passivism}]
    2: the belief that all international disputes can be settled by
       arbitration [syn: {pacifism}, {pacificism}]
    

pacifism \pacifism\ n.
   the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable.

   Syn: passivism.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. The belief that all international disputes can be settled
      by arbitration.
      [WordNet 1.5]
    

91 Moby Thesaurus words for "pacifism":
      a wise passiveness, abnegation, abstinence, calm, calmness,
      conservatism, constraint, contemplation, contemplative life,
      continence, control, cool, dispassion, do-nothing policy,
      do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, evenness, gentleness,
      golden mean, happy medium, idleness, immobility, impartiality,
      inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, irenicism,
      judiciousness, juste-milieu, laissez-aller, laissez-faire,
      laissez-faireism, lenity, meden agan, meditation, middle way,
      mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, neutralism,
      neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation,
      nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance,
      nothing in excess, paralysis, passive resistance,
      passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity,
      peaceableness, peaceful coexistence, policy, procrastination,
      prudence, quiescence, quietism, repose, restraint, self-abnegation,
      self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, serenity, sobriety,
      stability, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, steadiness,
      temperance, temperateness, tranquillity, unexcessiveness,
      unextravagance, unextremeness, unpugnaciousness, vegetation,
      via media, vita contemplativa, waiting game,
      watching and waiting