passiveness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

passivity passive resignation submission compliance obedience inertia yielding latency detachment indifference disregard humility boredom dormancy

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Antonyms

interest activity ardor application attention mind

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Hypernyms

inertia inactivity inactiveness submissiveness

Hyponyms

indifference apathy numbness torpor listlessness torpidity

Examples

Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. William Wordsworth

No occupation is more tiresome or depressing than that of killing time. It is the cause of lifeweariness, the punishment the soul inflicts upon itself when reduced to passiveness and servitude. John Lancaster Spalding

Filat also expressed his indignation at the passiveness of the police in Chisinau. Source: Internet

Our potential candidates should be selling us on how not to suckle on the chest of the federal dollar rather than selling us out through passiveness. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

passive-aggressivity passively passively ignoring passivisability passivisable passivisation