nonparticipation n : withdrawing from the activities of a group [syn: non-engagement, non-involvement] [ant: engagement, engagement, engagement]

a wise passiveness, contemplation, contemplative life, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, meditation, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, policy, procrastination, quiescence, quietism, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting