Passiveness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Passiveness \Pas"sive*ness\, n.
     The quality or state of being passive; unresisting
     submission.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           To be an effect implies passiveness, or the being


           subject to the power and action of its cause. --J.
                                                    Edwards.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]