ACTIVISM Synonyms

• a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance

• a state of agitation or turbulent change or development

• the feeling of being agitated; not calm

• disturbance usually in protest

• the act of agitating something; causing it to move around (usually vigorously)

• the campaign of a candidate to be elected

• a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

• any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims

• exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for

• go on a crusade; fight a holy war

• a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view

• a show of military force or preparedness

• a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature)

• proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion

• a visual presentation showing how something works

• (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority

• a difference of opinion

• the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent

• withhold assent

• express opposition through action or words

• be of different opinions

• the act of fighting; any contest or struggle

• engaged in or ready for military or naval operations

• organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

• a militant aggressiveness

• act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:

• act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action

• a formal and solemn declaration of objection

• the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent

• the act of making a strong public expression of disagreement and disapproval

• utter words of protest

• express opposition through action or words

• affirm or avow formally or solemnly

• refusal to accept some authority or code or convention

• organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

• a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

• the military action of resisting the enemy's advance

• (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

• the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents

• a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

• the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

• (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

• an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

• group action in opposition to those in power

• a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving

• the overthrow of a government by those who are governed

• a single complete turn (axial or orbital)

• organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

• a large entrance or reception room or area

• the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest

• an interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying

• detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors