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Webster 1913 Edition


Passiveness

Pas′sive-ness

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Noun.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Passiveness

P`ASSIVENESS

,
Noun.
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.

Definition 2024


passiveness

passiveness

English

Noun

passiveness (usually uncountable, plural passivenesses)

  1. The condition of being passive; passivity.

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