Violence vs. Nonviolence

Violencenoun

Extreme force.

‘The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive.’;

Nonviolencenoun

A philosophy that rejects the use of violence, and instead seeks to bring about change through peaceful responses even to violent acts.

Violencenoun

Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.

‘We try to avoid violence in resolving conflicts.’;

Nonviolencenoun

The theory, doctrine, or practice of peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate.

Violencenoun

Widespread fighting.

‘Violence between the government and the rebels continues.’;

Nonviolencenoun

peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate

Violencenoun

(figuratively) Injustice, wrong.

‘The translation does violence to the original novel.’;

Nonviolence

Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to one's self and others under every condition. It may come from the belief that hurting people, animals and/or the environment is unnecessary to achieve an outcome and it may refer to a general philosophy of abstention from violence.

Violencenoun

(obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation

Violenceverb

(nonstandard) To subject to violence.

Violencenoun

The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.

‘That sealYou ask with such a violence, the king,Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me.’; ‘All the elementsAt least had gone to wrack, disturbed and tornWith the violence of this conflict.’;

Violencenoun

Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.

‘Do violence to do man.’; ‘We can not, without offering violence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge.’; ‘Looking down, he sawThe whole earth filled with violence.’;

Violencenoun

Ravishment; rape; constupration.

Violenceverb

To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.

Violencenoun

an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists);

‘he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one’;

Violencenoun

the property of being wild or turbulent;

‘the storm's violence’;

Violencenoun

a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.

Violence

Violence is the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy. Other definitions are also used, such as the World Health Organization's definition of violence as Internationally, violence resulted in deaths of an estimated 1.28 million people in 2013 up from 1.13 million in 1990.

‘the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation.’;