Antonyms for violence
ˈvaɪ ə lənsvi·o·lence

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1. violence

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

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

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1. violence

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

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

Matched Categories

1. • Aggression
   • Intensity
   • Turbulence

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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

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1. violencenoun

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

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1. kindness

   Submitted by anonymous on March 1, 2020  

How to use violence in a sentence?

1. Karen Bradley:

   There is no honor in forcing a girl to marry against her will, to use violence and abuse to deny a woman the right to choose the clothes she wears, the right to pursue the career she wants, the right to have the friends she wants.

2. Charlie Hebdo:

   If Counterterrorism John Miller factored that, plus the events in Texas the other day where violence stirring around the same issue happened, and there are calls on social media for more violence around that issue against the same targets, this becomes a very obvious place to have a lot of protection.

3. Zaheer Ahmed:

   I don't know who engaged in the violence, but my husband didn't, why did they kill my innocent husband? How can they kill innocent people?

4. Jonathan Karl:

   The WHCA is horrified by a video reportedly shown over the weekend at a political conference organized by the President's supporters at the Trump National Doral in Miami. All Americans should condemn this depiction of violence directed toward journalists and the President's political opponents, we have previously told the President The President rhetoric could incite violence. Now we call on him and everybody associated with this conference to denounce this video and affirm that violence has no place in our society.

5. Rob Manwaring:

   Male violence against women has been on the political agenda for a while, there's a national plan and ongoing work to raise issues, and Victoria Police's what's triggered Leyonhjelm's reaction.

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