passivity
Also pas·sive·ness [pas-iv-nis]. /ˈpæs ɪv nɪs/. the state or condition of being passive.
chemical inactivity, especially the resistance to corrosion of certain metals when covered with a coherent oxide layer.
Origin of passivity
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How to use passivity in a sentence
And particularly when passiveness can enable challengers to the leadership of political Islam to make headway.
This silence, this passiveness on the part of their hitherto aggressive and turbulent gaolers was portentous.
The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley | Bertram MitfordPoetry stirs the Imagination, the Will, disturbs the passiveness that Beauty produces.
A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen | William SpaldingBut a man's passiveness to a beloved object of our sex may not, perhaps, argue want of courage on proper occasions.
Clarissa, Volume 6 (of 9) | Samuel RichardsonBut passive architecture without help for its passiveness is unendurable.
The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) | John Ruskin
The provisions, for those who require them, I do not object to, but the passiveness is fatally injurious.
Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party | Martin Robinson Delany
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