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reactionism collapse: the political orientation of reactionaries

nescience collapse

agnosticism collapse: the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge; a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God; "agnosticism holds that you can neither prove nor disprove God's existence"

royalism collapse: adherence or attachment to a monarchy or to the principle of monarchal government

monarchism collapse: a belief in and advocacy of monarchy as a political system

stranger collapse: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

nonparticipation collapse

inexperience collapse: lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience; "procedural inexperience created difficulties"; "their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops"

ignorance collapse: the lack of knowledge or education

persona non grata collapse: a diplomat who is unacceptable to the government to which he is sent

parochialism collapse: a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish

sexism collapse: discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of the opposite sex

exclusiveness collapse

unfamiliarity collapse: unusualness as a consequence of not being well known

male chauvinism collapse: activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women

seclusion collapse: the act of secluding yourself from others

out group collapse

red baiting collapse

waiting game collapse: a strategy of delay

dormancy collapse: a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction; "the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy"

anti Semitism collapse

outsider collapse: a contestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win

inactivity collapse: being inactive; being less active

racism collapse: discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race; the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races

insularity collapse

innocence collapse: a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense; "the trial established his innocence"

tabula rasa collapse: a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke)

chauvinism collapse: fanatical patriotism

noninvolvement collapse

Jim Crow collapse: a crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails

immobility collapse: the quality of not moving

apartheid collapse: a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa

stasis collapse: inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces; an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped

nonviolence collapse

pacifism collapse: the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration; the doctrine that all violence in unjustifiable

insulation collapse: the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity; the state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel"

fascism collapse: a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)

unintelligence collapse

vegetation collapse: inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation"; an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart); all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"; the process of growth in plants

procrastination collapse: the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time

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