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passive powerPassive prayer
passive resistance
passive resister
passive restraint
passive smoking
passive source
passive transfer
passive transport
passive trust
Passive verb
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passive-matrix
Passively
passivism
passivist
Passivity
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Passless
Passman
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
P`ASSIVENESS, n. Quality of receiving impressions from external agents or causes; as the passiveness of matter.
1. Passibility; capacity of suffering.
We shall lose our passiveness with our being.
2. Patience; calmness; unresisting submission.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: submission to others or to outside influences [syn: passivity, passiveness]
2: the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative [syn: passivity, passiveness]
Merriam Webster's
noun see passive I
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Passiveness Pas"sive*ness, n. The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission. To be an effect implies passiveness, or the being subject to the power and action of its cause. --J. Edwards.
Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
n. 1. Passivity. 2. Passibility. 3. Patience, calmness, submission.
