nonparticipation

nonparticipation
    n 1: withdrawing from the activities of a group [syn: {non-
         engagement}, {nonparticipation}, {non-involvement}] [ant:
         {engagement}, {involution}, {involvement}, {participation}]
    

nonparticipation \nonparticipation\ n.
   withdrawing from the activities of a group.

   Syn: non-engagement, non-involvement.
        [WordNet 1.5]
    

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "nonparticipation":
      a wise passiveness, contemplation, contemplative life,
      do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy,
      idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia,
      inertness, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism,
      meditation, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement,
      nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, pacifism,
      paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation,
      passiveness, passivism, passivity, policy, procrastination,
      quiescence, quietism, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis,
      vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game,
      watching and waiting