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passivity

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pas·siv·i·ty  (p-sv-t)
n.
The condition or quality of being passive; inactivity, quiescence, or submissiveness.
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Noun1.passivitypassivity - the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative
inertia, inactiveness, inactivity - a disposition to remain inactive or inert; "he had to overcome his inertia and get back to work"
spiritlessness, numbness, apathy, indifference - the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
torpidness, torpor, listlessness, torpidity - inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy
2.passivity - submission to others or to outside influences
submissiveness - the trait of being willing to yield to the will of another person or a superior force etc.
Translations
passivity [pæˈsɪvɪti] npassivité f


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Caswall's face had lost its appearance of passivity.
The four sang on with the phlegmatic passivity of persons who had long ago settled the question, and there being no mistake about it, felt that further thought was not required.
It is depressing to see so really noble a character as Catherine soured, as we feel, and lowered, as time goes on, from the happy resignation of the first volume (in which solemn, beautiful, and entire, and so very real, she is like a poem of Wordsworth) down to the mere passivity of the third volume, and the closing scene of Robert Elsmere's days, very exquisitely as this episode of unbelieving yet saintly biography has been conceived and executed.
 
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