non-violence

common noun

Syllable Decomposition

non-violence

from the English 'nonviolence', popularized from 1920 by Gandhi in India, and translating the Sanskrit अहिंसा ahimsā, from अ (a), a privative prefix, and हिंसा (himsā), 'violence'.

Definition

philosophiepolitique

Synonyms

Plural

non-violences

Translations

  • englishenglish:nonviolence
  • chinesechinese:非暴力
  • koreankorean:비폭력
  • hindihindi:अहिंसा
  • italianitalian:nonviolenza
  • japanesejapanese:非暴力