different between pacifist vs harmony

English

Etymology

From French pacifiste

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæs?f?st/

Noun

pacifist (plural pacifists)

1. One who loves, supports, or favours peace.

   Mahatma Gandhi was one of the world's most famous pacifists.

2. One who prefers to avoid violence.
3. One who opposes violence and is anti-war.
   • 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

     No matter what pacifist "flubdubs and flapdoodle mollycoddles" might say, the President [Teddy Roosevelt] knew that if there were a general war then America could well be drawn into it.

4. (video games, roguelikes) A player who attempts the challenge of winning a game without attacking any enemy characters.

Adjective

pacifist (comparative more pacifist, superlative most pacifist)

1. Of or relating to pacifism.
   • 2010, Charles R. Pinches, Kelly S. Johnson, Charles M. Collier, Unsettling Arguments: A Festschrift on the Occasion of Stanley Hauerwas's 70th Birthday, Wipf and Stock Publishers (?ISBN), page 129

     Therefore, because Hauerwas is a United Methodist, a church that is clearly not pacifist even if it is not clear what it is, he is not (yet) a pacifist.

Synonyms

• (one who loves, supports, or favours peace): dove, Gandhist

Antonyms

• (one who loves, supports, or favours peace): bellicist, militarist, hawk

Related terms

• pacify
• pacific

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French pacifiste or English pacifist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?.si?f?st/
• Hyphenation: pa?ci?fist
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

pacifist m (plural pacifisten, feminine pacifiste)

1. A pacifist.

Related terms

• pacifisme
• pacifistisch

Romanian

Etymology

From French pacifiste

Noun

pacifist m (plural pacifi?ti)

1. pacifist

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pacìfist m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. pacifist

Declension

Swedish

Noun

pacifist c

1. pacifist

Declension

Related terms

• pacifism

English

Etymology

First attested in 1602. From Middle English armonye, from Old French harmonie/armonie, from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??m?ni/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??m?ni/
• Homophone: hominy (god-guard merger and weak vowel merger)

Noun

harmony (countable and uncountable, plural harmonies)

1. Agreement or accord.
   • December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweekk

     America's social harmony has depended at least to some degree on economic growth. It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead.

2. A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
3. (music) The academic study of chords.
4. (music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
5. (music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
6. A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.

   a harmony of the Gospels

Derived terms

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Further reading

• harmony in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• harmony in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.