passive resistance

passive resistance
    n 1: peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing
         to cooperate [syn: {passive resistance}, {nonviolent
         resistance}, {nonviolence}]
    

114 Moby Thesaurus words for "passive resistance":
      Quakerism, a wise passiveness, acquiescence, amenability,
      challenge, civil disobedience, combative reaction, complaint,
      compliance, contemplation, contemplative life, counteraction,
      defiance, demur, disobedience, dispute, dissent, dissentience,
      do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy,
      fractiousness, frowardness, humbleness, humility, idleness,
      immobility, inaction, inactivity, indiscipline, indocility,
      indolence, inertia, inertness, infraction, infringement,
      insubordination, intractability, laissez-aller, laissez-faire,
      laissez-faireism, lawbreaking, lawlessness, meditation, meekness,
      naughtiness, negativism, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness,
      noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation, noninvolvement,
      nonobedience, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence,
      nonviolent resistance, obedience, objection, obstinacy, opposition,
      pacifism, paralysis, passive self-annihilation, passiveness,
      passivism, passivity, policy, procrastination, protest, quiescence,
      quietism, reaction, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy,
      recalcitration, recusancy, refractoriness, reluctance,
      remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency,
      repulse, repulsion, resignation, resistance, revolt, stagnancy,
      stagnation, stand, standpattism, stasis, submission,
      submissiveness, transgression, uncomplainingness,
      uncooperativeness, unduteousness, undutifulness, unsubmissiveness,
      vegetation, violation, vita contemplativa, waiting game,
      watching and waiting, waywardness, willful disobedience,
      withstanding