different between violence vs calamity

English

Etymology

From Middle English violence, from Old French violence, from Latin violentia, from adjective violentus, see violent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va??l?ns/, /?va?l?ns/
• (obsolete or poetic) IPA^(key): /?va???l?ns/, /?va??l?ns/
• Rhymes: -a??l?ns, -a?l?ns

Noun

violence (countable and uncountable, plural violences)

1. Extreme force.

2. Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.

3. Widespread fighting.

4. (figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
   • 2017, Kevin J. O'Brien, The Violence of Climate Change

     Racism, classism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and heterosexism are also wicked problems of structural violence […]

5. (obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation

Antonyms

• (action intended to cause destruction, pain or suffering): peace, nonviolence

Hypernyms

• (extreme force): force

Related terms

• violent
• violate
• violation

Translations

See also

• domestic violence
• reverse domestic violence

Verb

violence (third-person singular simple present violences, present participle violencing, simple past and past participle violenced)

1. (nonstandard) To subject to violence.
   • 1996, Professor Cathy Nutbrown, Respectful Educators - Capable Learners: Children's Rights and Early Education, SAGE ?ISBN, page 36:

     The key general point is that the idea of the agendered, asexual, aviolenced worker is a fiction; workers and organizational members do not exist in social abstraction; they are gendered, sexualed and violenced, partly by their position  ...

   • 2011, Timothy D. Forsyth, The Alien, AuthorHouse ?ISBN, page 24:

     And the triad is made complete by she who is violenced by him.

   • 2012, Megan Sweeney, The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading, University of Illinois Press ?ISBN, page 46:

     He physically violenced my mother, physically violenced me and my brothers, and was sexually abusive to me until I was in second grade.

References

• violence at OneLook Dictionary Search
• violence in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "violence" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 329.
• violence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Old French violence, from Latin violentia, from the adjective violentus, see violent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vj?.l??s/
• Homophone: violences

Noun

violence f (plural violences)

1. (uncountable) violence
2. (countable) act of violence

Synonyms

• ardeur
• brutalité
• force
• fougue
• fureur
• sévices
• virulence

Antonyms

• douceur

Derived terms

• faire violence

Related terms

• violemment
• violent
• violenter

Further reading

• “violence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• violens, vyolence, vyolens, vyalens, wiolence, violense

Etymology

From Old French violence, from Latin violentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi??l??ns(?)/, /?vi??l??ns(?)/, /vi?l??ns(?)/, /?vi??l?ns(?)/

Noun

violence (uncountable)

1. Violence (harmful manual force) or an example of it.
2. A harmful force of nature; great natural force.
3. Divine or religious force or strength.
4. The force or power of one's feelings or mental state.
5. Powerful or forceful movement or mobility.
6. Misrule or malgovernance; abuse of authority.
7. (rare) Beneficial manual force.
8. (rare) The strength of an ache.
9. (rare) The whims of chance.

Descendants

• English: violence

References

• “v??olence, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-30.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin violentia.

Noun

violence f (oblique plural violences, nominative singular violence, nominative plural violences)

1. violence
2. act of violence

Descendants

• ? Middle English: violence, violens, vyolence, vyolens, vyalens, wiolence, violense
  • English: violence
• French: violence

English

Etymology

From Middle French calamité, from Latin calamit?s (“loss, damage; disaster”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??læm?ti/
• Hyphenation: ca?lam?i?ty

Noun

calamity (plural calamities)

1. An event resulting in great loss.
2. The distress that results from some disaster.
   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)[1]

     They were behind twice, first in the 11th minute when James Morrison scored a goal that was a personal calamity for Hart, and then four minutes into the second half when Kenny Miller eluded Gary Cahill to score with a splendid left-foot drive.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:disaster

Related terms

• calamitous

Translations