Hypertext Webster Gateway: "passiveness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
passiveness
n 1: submission to others or to outside influences [syn: {passivity}]
2: the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative [syn:
{passivity}]
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