passivity

• So the passivity was culturally projected onto the little girls. —  Emily Levine's theory of everything
• Many reasons -- from Prozac to Pentecostalism -- have been cited to explain American passivity in the face of economic violence.
• I do not say there is no alternative to such passivity, which is partly comical, but there are times, states, in which we lie under and feel the awful volume of cumulative consciousness, we feel the weight of the world. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
• Yet passivity was a word that I didn't entirely like. —  AUGUST, 1953 VOL
• The same soft passivity, the same receptiveness, which made his emotions like the surface of a lake under sky and breeze, entered also into the working of his intellectual faculties. —  Rousseau (Volume 1 of 2)

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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