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obedience collapse: behavior intended to please your parents; "their children were never very strong on obedience"; "he went to law school out of respect for his father's wishes"; the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person; the trait of being willing to obey

humility collapse: a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride; "not everyone regards humility as a virtue"; a humble feeling; "he was filled with humility at the sight of the Pope"

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

passive resistance collapse: peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate

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

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

guerrilla collapse: a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

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

submission collapse: the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another; (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing; an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter; a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter; something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition); "several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"; "what was the date of submission of your proposal?"; the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else; "the union was brought into submission"; "his submission to the will of God"

quietism collapse: a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God

inertia collapse: (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain is state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force

meditation collapse: continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature; "the habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge"; (religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects)

reluctance collapse: a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"; "after some hesitation he agreed"; (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance)

resignation collapse: a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign; "he submitted his resignation as of next month"; the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.); acceptance of despair

nonresistance collapse: group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence

repulsion collapse: the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand; the force by which bodies repel one another

objection collapse: (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality; the speech act of objecting

noncombatant collapse: a member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon); member of armed forces whose duties do not include fighting as e.g. a chaplain or surgeon; used of civilians in time of war

demur collapse: (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings; take exception to; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday"; enter a demurrer

passivity collapse: the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative; submission to others or to outside influences

irenic collapse: conducive to peace; "irenic without being namby-pamby"; "an irenic attitude toward former antagonists"

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