bystandership

== English == === Etymology === From bystander +‎ -ship. === Noun === bystandership (uncountable) The role of being a bystander, not taking any active part. 2011, Ervin Staub, Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict, and Terrorism, Oxford Universtiy Press (2013), →ISBN (hardcover), →ISBN (paperback), part I, chapter 7, 198: 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.