direct action vs civil disobedience

direct action and civil disobedience both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
direct action	Yes	No	No	No
civil disobedience	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, civil disobedience is a hyponym of direct action; that is, civil disobedience is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than direct action:

direct action: a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands
civil disobedience: a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination)

Other hyponyms of direct action include job action, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, passive resistance, recusancy.

direct action (noun)	civil disobedience (noun)
a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands	a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination)

direct action vs civil disobedience

direct action and civil disobedience both are nouns.

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