Passivity Synonyms

pă-sĭvĭ-tē
The trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. passiveness

Words Related to Passivity

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Passivity Sentence Examples

  • Accepting their apparent passivity is clearly no way forward.

  • The climate itself encourages to passivity, and the very luxuriance of vegetable and animal life tends to blunt the feeling of the value of life.

  • It is only in a state of perfect passivity and repose that the soul can recognize and touch the primeval Being.

  • Even granting that some feeble remains of antique reserve may have contributed to this, and even although some of it is certainly to be set down to his disposition and temperament, still it was his religious passivity that here determined the character of Socrates and made him a typical example of the later Byzantine Christianity.

  • As video encourages passivity, it can prove difficult to engage the attention of students.

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