nonresistance

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noun

Lack of resistance; not actively resisting.

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Meanings

nounnonresistance (countable and uncountable, plural nonresistances)

plural nonresistances · alternative non-resistance

  1. countableuncountableLack of resistance; not actively resisting.

    I knew but little, no more than other men of what has been taught or written on the subject of non-resistance in former times.

    1894, Leo Tolstoï [i.e., Leo Tolstoy], “Introductory”, in Constance Garnett, transl., The Kingdom of God is within You: or, Christianity Not as a Mystical Doctrine, but as a New Life-conception. […], London: Walter Scott, […], →OCLC, page 2

Origin

From non- + resistance.

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