peacelessness
English
Etymology
peaceless + -ness
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpiːsləsnəs/
Noun
peacelessness (uncountable)
- Discord; simmering conflict; a state often preluding war.
- 1974: International peace research newsletter, volume 12:2, pages 16[1] & 17[2]
- 1989: Keizai Kōhō Sentā, Speaking of Japan, pages 6[3] & 7[4] (Keizai Kōhō Center)
References
- The conditions of peacelessness lead to aggression, internalised and open; aggression to violence, violence to bloodshed, to the destruction of life, civilization and values; and all these to mini wars.
- Wars, as viewed by those who suffer from peacelessness thus, do not always disturb peace but quite often are mere symptoms of acute peacelessness and sometimes a relief.
- We now understand that peacelessness comes not only out of the barrel of a gun.
- […] increasing linkages between city economies and the global economy sometimes produce economic and social changes that have induced conflict and poverty, thereby producing peacelessness.