Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not passive

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

non- +‎ passive

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word nonpassive.

Examples

  • DesAutels argues that moral attentiveness requires “nonpassive vigilance of thought where we attempt to counter known psychological tendencies and subtle social influences that prevent us from seeing and responding to the demands of care” (p. 72).

    Feminist Moral Psychology Superson, Anita 2009

  • There are passive and nonpassive assets, garden-variety capital assets and quasi-capital assets, metallic commodities and nonmetallic, short things and long things, plain old office buildings and office buildings with depreciation recapture.

    Forbes.com: News William Baldwin 2011

  • Nonpassive losses: new case treats losses from LLPs, LLCs as nonpassive. (

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Regulators Close Failed Banks in Ga., Calif. 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.