pacifism

English

Etymology

From French pacifisme, from pacifique; pacific +‎ -ism

Noun

pacifism (countable and uncountable, plural pacifisms)

1. The conviction that it is morally wrong to settle disputes (especially between countries) by war or other violent means. [from c. 1900]
2. (video games, roguelikes) The additional challenge of winning a game without attacking any enemy characters.

Synonyms

• (peaceful doctrine): Gandhism

Antonyms

• (peaceful doctrine): bellicism, militarism

Related terms

• pacific
• pacifist

Translations

doctrine that disputes should be settled without violence

• Catalan: pacifisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 和平主義 (zh), 和平主义 (zh) (hépíngzhǔyì)

• Czech: pacifismus (cs) m
• Esperanto: pacismo
• Finnish: pasifismi (fi), rauhanaate (fi)
• French: pacifisme (fr) m
• Galician: pacifismo m
• Georgian: პაციფიზმი (ṗacipizmi)
• German: Pazifismus (de) m
• Greek: ειρηνισμός (el) m (eirinismós)
• Hebrew: פציפיזם‎ (he) m (patsifízm)
• Irish: síochánachas m
• Italian: pacifismo (it) m
• Japanese: 平和主義 (ja) (へいわしゅぎ, heiwashugi)

• Kazakh: пацифизм (pacïfïzm)
• Korean: 평화주의 (ko) (pyeonghwajuui) (平和主義 (ko))
• Lithuanian: pacifizmas (lt) m
• Malay: faham pententeraman, pasifisme
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pasifisme m

  Nynorsk: pasifisme m

• Polish: pacyfizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: pacifismo (pt) m
• Romanian: pacifism (ro) n
• Russian: пацифи́зм (ru) m (pacifízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пацифизам m

  Roman: pacifizam (sh) m

• Spanish: pacifismo (es) m
• Swedish: pacifism (sv) c
• Ukrainian: пацифі́зм (uk) m (pacyfízm)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa hoà bình (主義和平)

References

• pacifism at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Swedish

Etymology

From French pacifisme.

Noun

pacifism c

1. pacifism

Declension

Declension of pacifism
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	pacifism	pacifismen	—	—
Genitive	pacifisms	pacifismens	—	—

Related terms

• pacifist