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. Edward Stack:

   We have tremendous respect and admiration for the students organizing and making their voices heard regarding gun violence in schools and elsewhere in our country, we have heard you. The nation has heard you. We support and respect the Second Amendment, and we recognize and appreciate that the vast majority of gun owners in this country are responsible, law-abiding citizens. But we have to help solve the problem that's in front of us.

2. Hanan Al Hroub:

   Some children may not directly experience things like arrests, or assault, checkpoints and all the violence in our country, however they see it on the screens and in social media and that still affects them, i tell all the teachers, whether they are Palestinian or around the world: 'Our job is humane, its goals are noble. We must teach our children that our only weapon is knowledge and education'.

3. Cecil Williams:

   One of the most terrible acts of violence I have ever seen was when a young lady student fell to the pavement and two Orangeburg city police begin clubbing her.

4. Zalmay Khalilzad:

   We are at the threshold of an agreement that will reduce violence and open the door for Afghans to sit together to negotiate an honorable and sustainable peace and a unified, sovereign Afghanistan that does not threaten the United States, its allies, or any other country.

5. Tim Cook:

   It is long past time to stop pretending that this approach doesn’t come with a cost — of polarization, of lost trust and, yes, of violence, a social dilemma cannot be allowed to become a social catastrophe.