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Meaning of "pacificism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PACIFICISM

pacificism  [pəˈsɪfɪˌsɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PACIFICISM

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Pacificism is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PACIFICISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pacificism

Pacificism is the general ethical opposition to war or violence, except in cases where force is deemed absolutely necessary to advance the cause of peace. It falls between pacifism, which usually states that violence, war or killing is unconditionally wrong in all cases, and defensivism, which accepts all defensive wars and acts of deterrence as morally just. Pacificism states that war can only ever be considered as a firm "last resort", condemning both aggression and militarism. The theory was first put forward by A. J. P. Taylor in The Trouble-Makers and was subsequently defined by Martin Ceadel in his 1987 book, Thinking About Peace and War. It was also discussed in detail in Richard Norman's book: Ethics, Killing and War. The largest national peace association in history, the British League of Nations Union, was pacificist rather than pacifist in orientation. Historically, the majority of peace activists have been pacificists rather than strict pacifists.

Definition of pacificism in the English dictionary

The definition of pacificism in the dictionary is opposition to violence.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PACIFICISM


aestheticism
iːsˈθɛtɪˌsɪzəm
asceticism
əˈsɛtɪˌsɪzəm
Catholicism
kəˈθɒlɪˌsɪzəm
classicism
ˈklæsɪˌsɪzəm
criticism
ˈkrɪtɪˌsɪzəm
cynicism
ˈsɪnɪˌsɪzəm
eclecticism
ɪˈklɛktɪˌsɪzəm
empiricism
ɛmˈpɪrɪˌsɪzəm
eroticism
ɪˈrɒtɪˌsɪzəm
fanaticism
fəˈnætɪˌsɪzəm
historicism
hɪˈstɒrɪˌsɪzəm
lyricism
ˈlɪrɪˌsɪzəm
mosaicism
məʊˈzeɪɪˌsɪzəm
mysticism
ˈmɪstɪˌsɪzəm
narcissism
ˈnɑːsɪˌsɪzəm
neoclassicism
ˌniːəʊˈklæsɪˌsɪzəm
neuroticism
njʊˈrɒtɪˌsɪzəm
romanticism
rəʊˈmæntɪˌsɪzəm
scholasticism
skəˈlæstɪˌsɪzəm
witticism
ˈwɪtɪˌsɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PACIFICISM

pacific
Pacific Daylight Time
Pacific Islands
Pacific Northwest
Pacific Ocean
Pacific rim
Pacific Rose
Pacific Standard Time
pacifical
pacifically
pacificate
pacification
pacificator
pacificatory
pacificist
pacified
pacifier
pacifies
pacifism
pacifist

WORDS THAT END LIKE PACIFICISM

agnosticism
Anglicism
anti-Catholicism
athleticism
didacticism
esotericism
exoticism
hermeticism
higher criticism
homoeroticism
literary criticism
monasticism
new criticism
peripateticism
racism
Roman Catholicism
scepticism
self-criticism
skepticism
stoicism
textual criticism

Synonyms and antonyms of pacificism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pacificism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PACIFICISM

Find out the translation of pacificism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pacificism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pacificism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

和平主义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pacifismo
570 millions of speakers

English

pacificism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pacificism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pacificism
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пацифизм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pacifismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শান্তিবাদ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pacifisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pacificism
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pazifismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

pacificism
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

평화주의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pacificism
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chủ nghia hòa bình
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pacificism
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रशांतवाद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pacificism
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pacifismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pacificism
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пацифізм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pacifism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pacificism
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vredesbeweging
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pacifism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pacificism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pacificism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PACIFICISM»

The term «pacificism» is used very little and occupies the 170.521 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PACIFICISM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pacificism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PACIFICISM»

Discover the use of pacificism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pacificism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination
My preference for the deceptively quietterm “Pacificism”to describemultiplysplit U.S. logics aimsto foreground the alluring, muting, quiescent quality of a touristic glossing overofa violent legacyof encounter. “Pacificism” pacifies,asOrwell notes:  ...
Paul Lyons, 2006
2
Pacificism
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pacificism is the general ethical opposition to war or violence, except in cases where force is deemed absolutely necessary to advance the cause of peace.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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The Ethics of War and Peace
Pacificism may be characterized thus: a belief in the possibility of making peace a more durable and robust feature in human relationships, both locally and globally , and in its ethical desirability as something that ought – morally – to be the ...
Nigel Dower, 2009
4
Pacificism and the Just War: A Study in Applied Philosophy
Teichman describes and analyzes the theories of pacifism and the traditional doctrine of the just war. (Theology)
Jenny Teichman, 1986
5
Ideology and International Relations in the Modern World
On this topic scholars have found it useful to make a distinction between pacifism and pacificism. Pacifism, strictly speaking, has always been the preserve of individuals who, on grounds of religion or conscience, cannot sanction the taking of ...
Alan Cassels, 1996
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The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought
22. Paciflsm. and. pacificism. MARTIN CEADEL Since the start of the modern political era, if not longer, most people in ahnost all countries have believed that the incidence of international war is most likely to be reduced if countries repudiate ...
Terence Ball, Richard Bellamy, 2003
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Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, ...
This could have been, in someone else's mind and hands, a much largerscale book, along the lines of Paul Lyons's American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination (2005) or Vilsoni Hereniko and Rob Wilson's collection Inside Out: ...
Cristina Bacchilega, 2011
8
On Liberal Peace: Democracy, War and the International Order
... of the use of force for a developing regional and international liberal political community? Third, does the case support the contention that there is a positive relationship between liberalism in domestic politics and pacificism in foreign policy?
John MacMillan, 1998
9
Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century: ...
Whereas earlier the Christians were persecuted in Rome for their pacificism and their contempt for temporal authority, now, as the custodian of an imperial state religion, the Christian church itself took on the attributes of an imperium. Its clergy  ...
Richard Taruskin, 2009
10
Entrepreneurship and Religion
They are profoundly religious, applying their belief in community ownership of property, pacificism (separation of church and state), and communal agrarian lifestyle as God's directions for proper living. Each community is symbolic of Noah's ...
Léo-Paul Dana, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PACIFICISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pacificism is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Spectator at war: The ugliness of pacifism
In the West an advanced pacificisin—what seems to us, when we reflect on the probable results, a hopelessly unthinking pacificism—is very ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Need help dealing with that bully? Call Dexter Delves
But not necessarily pacificism. What about circumstances where self-defence is the only option? Delves has been in that situation three times in ... «OurWindsor.ca, Jun 15»
3
That time 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai left Jon Stewart speechless …
That time 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai left Jon Stewart speechless with a comment about pacificism. Brian Jones,Harrison JacobsJun 19, ... «Businessinsider India, Jun 15»
4
Dig probes Shakers' link to secular world
The communities practiced equality of the sexes, pacificism, communal ownership of property and celibacy. It was the last that ultimately ... «Rocky Mount Telegram, Jun 15»
5
Dig takes a look at how New Hampshire Shakers interacted
The communities, including another New Hampshire site in Canterbury, practiced equality of the sexes, pacificism, communal ownership of ... «Chron.com, Jun 15»
6
7 historic sites to visit in Saskatchewan this summer
According to the online Canadian Encyclopedia, the Doukhobors were a sect known for "radical pacificism" and their descendents in Western ... «CBC.ca, Jun 15»
7
Japan cabinet to OK military expansion rules
But the Japanese public is suspicious of anything that seems to lessen the commitment to pacificism, and insist its armed forces should only ... «Rappler, May 15»
8
Buhari's Survival In Power: Between Morality And Mischief
THEY FIT IT NOW.” Mr Ford was widely known for his pacificism during the first years of the World War I and also for being the publisher of the ... «Leadership Newspapers, May 15»
9
US-Japan alliance could help deter land grabs by China
... part of the broader push by Japan to shed some of the restrictions of its post-war pacificism, would "allow the US and Japanese to work more ... «The Nation, May 15»
10
Fintan O'Toole: Religious conservatives want to have cake and eat it
Religious belief can sanction everything from Quaker pacificism to jihadist terrorism, profound commitment to human equality to profound ... «Irish Times, May 15»

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