bystandership
nounEtymology From bystander + -ship.
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The role of being a bystander, not taking any active part.
- For the most part, neither superiors nor fellow guards took action when they saw the abuse. Their passive bystandership allowed the evolution of increasing abuse.2011, Ervin Staub, Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict, and Terrorism, Oxford Universtiy Press (2013) (hardcover) (paperback), part I, chapter 7, 198