a wise passiveness, blankness, dispassion, heartlessness, inertia, lenitude, nonopposal, passivism, sluggishness, supineness, vis inertiae
Definitionn. the trait of remaining inactive
Last update: June 15, 2015
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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. [Please select]
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In passivity, in economy, in the instinct of tradition, in unexpectedness. [Please select]
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In a curious state of passivity, Soames submitted to the operation. [Please select]
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They submitted to baptism with that singular passivity which marks nearly all the South American races. [Please select]
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Then he would smile, stoop his head and answer, only to resume again immediately his melancholy passivity. [Please select]
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Must we consider the pyramid the expression of passivity, the diagonal or V-shape, of activity. [Please select]
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Beadon Clarke listened with the passivity of a man encompassed by melancholy, and sunk deep in the abyss of shame. [Please select]
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The gorilla seemed puzzled by the strange passivity of the hairless ape. [Please select]
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Her training as a nurse was giving her a certain passivity. [Please select]
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The religious passivity remained unstirred even during the domination of the Turks, who contented themselves with treating the unbelievers with contempt, and squeezing as much money as possible out of them. [Please select]
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Then I am as distinctly conscious of passivity--of not causing the succession of events which take place in my mind--as I am in the other case of actively causing it. [Please select]
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