All nonresistance synonyms

noun nonresistance

• cringing — servile; obsequious
• recreancy — cowardly or craven.
• submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
• civil disobedience — Civil disobedience is the refusal by ordinary people in a country to obey laws or pay taxes, usually as a protest.
• nonviolent resistance — passive resistance, peaceful protest
• humbleness — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
• modesty — the quality of being modest; freedom from vanity, boastfulness, etc.
• shyness — bashful; retiring.
• abasement — to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade.
• bashfulness — The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
• demureness — characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
• diffidence — the quality or state of being diffident.
• docility — easily managed or handled; tractable: a docile horse.
• lowliness — humble in station, condition, or nature: a lowly cottage.
• meekness — humbly patient or docile, as under provocation from others.
• mortification — a feeling of humiliation or shame, as through some injury to one's pride or self-respect.
• obedience — the state or quality of being obedient.
• obsequiousness — characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
• passiveness — Also, passiveness [pas-iv-nis] /ˈpæs ɪv nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being passive.
• reserve — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
• resignation — the act of resigning.
• self-abasement — humiliation of oneself, especially as a result of guilt, shame, or the like.
• self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
• servility — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
• sheepish — embarrassed or bashful, as by having done something wrong or foolish.
• subjection — the act of subjecting.
• non-submissive — inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants.
• subservience — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
• timidity — lacking in self-assurance, courage, or bravery; easily alarmed; timorous; shy.
• timorous — full of fear; fearful: The noise made them timorous.
• unobtrusiveness — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
• unpretentious — not pretentious; modest; without ostentatious display; plain: his unpretentious demeanor; an unpretentious summer resort.
• fawning — a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
• inferiority complex — Psychiatry. intense feeling of inferiority, producing a personality characterized either by extreme reticence or, as a result of overcompensation, by extreme aggressiveness.
• capacity — The capacity of a container is its volume, or the amount of liquid it can hold, measured in units such as litres or gallons.
• composure — Composure is the appearance or feeling of calm and the ability to control your feelings.
• diligence — constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; persistent exertion of body or mind.
• endurance — The fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way.
• fortitude — mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation courageously: Never once did her fortitude waver during that long illness.
• grit — abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
• humility — the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank, etc.
• moderation — the quality of being moderate; restraint; avoidance of extremes or excesses; temperance.
• perseverance — steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
• persistence — the act or fact of persisting.
• poise — a centimeter-gram-second unit of viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in which a stress of one dyne per square centimeter is required to maintain a difference of velocity of one centimeter per second between two parallel planes in the fluid that lie in the direction of flow and are separated by a distance of one centimeter. Symbol: P.
• restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
• self-control — control or restraint of oneself or one's actions, feelings, etc.
• tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
• backbone — Your backbone is the column of small linked bones down the middle of your back.
• bearing — Someone's bearing is the way in which they move or stand.