pacifism

English

Etymology

From French pacifisme, from pacifique; pacific +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæsɪfɪzəm/

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Noun

pacifism (countable and uncountable, plural pacifisms)

1. The support of peace, specifically:
   1. The conviction that it is morally wrong to settle disputes (especially between countries) by war or other violent means. [from c. 1900]
      • 1931, Albert Einstein, (famous quote):

        I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

      • 2023, Mike DeSousa, “Defining Pacifism”, in Active Pacifist‎^[1]:

        The individual pacifist (who may or may not follow a particular religion) can for example support voluntary euthanasia while at the same time retaining a consistent view about how to approach issues surrounding violent conflict and the common good. Although such issues raise complex ethical dilemmas, for some, pacifism can accomodate^[sic] the possibility of killing in certain circumstances.

   2. The ethical avoidance of inflicting harm on others in one's daily life.
      • 2018, Blake Hereth, “Animal Rights Terrorism and Pacifism”, in American Philosophical Association‎^[2]:

        Pacifism forbids us from killing would-be murderers in self-defense, but terrorism permits us to slit the throat of a 17-year-old working a night shift at the zoo. […] Pacifism also has the modal implication that no possible wrongful aggressor can be permissibly harmed, even in possible worlds where doing so is the only feasible means of saving oneself or others.

      Synonyms: ahimsa, nonkilling

   3. The combination of the above two philosophical viewpoints.
2. (video games, roguelikes) The additional challenge of winning a game without harming any enemy characters.

Synonyms

• (peaceful doctrine): Gandhism

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “peaceful doctrine”): bellicism, militarism, warism

Derived terms

• anarcho-pacifism
• ultra-pacifism

 

Related terms

• pacific
• pacificism
• pacificist
• pacifist

 

Translations

doctrine that disputes should be settled without violence

• Albanian: pacifizëm (sq) m
• Arabic: سَلَامِيَّة f (salāmiyya), سِلْمِيَّة f (silmiyya)
• Armenian: պացիֆիզմ (hy) (pacʻifizm)
• Azerbaijani: pasifizm
• Belarusian: пацыфі́зм m (pacyfízm)
• Bengali: শান্তিবাদ (śantibad)
• Bulgarian: пацифи́зъм (bg) m (pacifízǎm)
• Burmese: ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးဝါဒ (ngrim:hkyam:re:wada.)
• Catalan: pacifisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Corsican: pacifismu m
• Czech: pacifismus (cs) m
• Danish: pacifisme c
• Dutch: pacifisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: pacismo
• Estonian: patsifism
• Finnish: pasifismi (fi), rauhanaate (fi)
• French: pacifisme (fr) m
• Galician: pacifismo m
• Georgian: პაციფიზმი (ṗacipizmi)
• German: Pazifismus (de) m
• Greek: ειρηνισμός (el) m (eirinismós), πασιφισμός (el) m (pasifismós)
• Hebrew: פָּצִיפִיזְם (he) m (patsifízm)
• Hindi: शान्तिवाद m (śāntivād), शांतिवाद m (śāntivād)
• Hungarian: pacifizmus (hu)
• Irish: síochánachas m
• Italian: pacifismo (it) m
• Japanese: 平和主義 (ja) (へいわしゅぎ, heiwashugi)
• Kazakh: пацифизм (pasifizm)
• Khmer: សន្តិនិយម (sɑnteniyum)
• Korean: 평화주의(平和主義) (ko) (pyeonghwajuui)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pasîfîzm (ku), aştîxwazî (ku), şernexwazî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: пацифизм (patsifizm)
• Latvian: pacifisms m
• Lithuanian: pacifizmas (lt) m
• Macedonian: пацифи́зам m (pacifízam), мирољубивост f (miroljubivost)
• Malay: faham pententeraman, pasifisme
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: пацифизм (pacifizm)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pasifisme m

  Nynorsk: pasifisme m

• Pashto: صلح پسندي f (solh-psandī)
• Persian: صلح‌جویی (solh-juyi), صلح‌طلبی (solh-talabi)
• Polish: pacyfizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: pacifismo (pt) m
• Romanian: pacifism (ro) n
• Russian: пацифи́зм (ru) m (pacifízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пацифѝзам m

  Roman: pacifìzam (sh) m

• Sicilian: pacifismu m, pacifìsimu m
• Slovak: pacifizmus m
• Slovene: pacifizem m
• Spanish: pacifismo (es) m
• Swedish: pacifism (sv) c
• Tagalog: pasipismo
• Tajik: патсифизм (patsifizm), сулҳҷӯӣ (sulhjüyī), сулҳталабӣ (sulhtalabī)
• Thai: สันตินิยม (sǎn-dtì-ní-yom)
• Turkish: pasifizm
• Turkmen: pasifizm
• Ukrainian: пацифі́зм (uk) m (pacyfízm)
• Urdu: اَمْن پَسَنْدی f (amn-pasandī)
• Uzbek: patsifizm (uz)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa hoà bình (主義和平)
• West Frisian: pasifisme n

References

• “pacifism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pacifisme.

Noun

pacifism n (uncountable)

1. pacifism

Declension

declension of pacifism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pacifism	pacifismul
genitive/dative	(unui) pacifism	pacifismului
vocative	pacifismule

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
• pacifistisk

References

• pacifism in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pacifism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pacifism in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)