Synonyms for violence
ˈvaɪ ə lənsvi·o·lence

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1. violence

   Synonyms:
   agitation, alarm, anxiety, care, distress, disturbance, eagerness, emotion, excitement, feeling, frenzy, fury, passion, sensibility, sensitiveness, storm, susceptibility, sympathy, turbulence, vehemence

   Antonyms:
   apathy, calmness, composure, immobility, impassibility, indifference, insensibility, lethargy, phlegm, quietness, quietude, sluggishness, stillness, stoicism, tranquillity, unconcern, unfeelingness

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1. violence

   Synonyms:
   vehemence, impetuosity, force, rape, outrage, rage, profanation, injustice, fury, infringement, fierceness, oppression

   Antonyms:
   lenity, mildness, self-restraint, feebleness, gentleness, respect, forbearance, self-control, observance, obedience, preservation, conservation, protection

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1. violence, forcenoun

   an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

   "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"

   Synonyms:
   power, military unit, furiousness, military group, force, vehemence, military force, force play, strength, ferocity, effect, wildness, force out, fierceness, fury, force-out, personnel, forcefulness

2. ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildnessnoun

   the property of being wild or turbulent

   "the storm's violence"

   Synonyms:
   fury, rage, delirium, emphasis, craze, frenzy, abandon, madness, wildness, force, vehemence, furiousness, ferocity, hysteria, fierceness

3. violencenoun

   a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.

   Synonyms:
   fury, vehemence, fierceness, wildness, ferocity, force, furiousness

Matched Categories

1. • Aggression
   • Intensity
   • Turbulence

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1. violencenoun

   Synonyms:
   vehemence, impetuosity, boisterousness

2. violencenoun

   Synonyms:
   passion, fury, fierceness, wildness, rage

3. violencenoun

   Synonyms:
   outrage, injustice, injury, unlawfulness, sway or brute force, reign of terror

4. violencenoun

   Synonyms:
   sharpness, acuteness, severity, poignancy, intensity

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1. violencenoun

   Synonyms:
   force, impetuosity, vehemence, intensity, severity, wildness, fury, injury, violation, profanation, outrage, assault

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1. List of paraphrases for "violence":

   violent, abuse, violencia, gewalt, violences, force, assault, brutality

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1. Jim Kenney:

   With the unabated flow of illegal guns and drugs, we must do whatever we can locally to address violence and help residents, well have teams in the neighborhoods impacted by this weekends violence to provide support and trauma-informed care.

2. Sunai Phasuk:

   Ten years on and there has been no successful prosecution of Thai security forces who may be guilty of rights violations, violence does not come from the separatists alone. The security forces have their own share of responsibility.

3. Chip Roy:

   The United States Attorney's Office in Minnesota filed a sentencing brief that read exactly like the defense lawyers’ brief. Citing all of the events of the summer, completely offsetting the dead father of five, with a store burned to the ground during mob violence rule in the summer of 2020.

4. President Obama:

   All across America, survivors of gun violence and those who lost a child, a parent, a spouse to gun violence are forced to mark such awful anniversaries every single day, yet Congress still hasn’t done anything to prevent what happened to them from happening to other families.

5. Javier Martinez:

   We have seen far too much political violence lately and all of these events are powerful reminders that stirring up fear, heightening tensions, and stoking hatred can have devastating consequences.