passive
adjective
not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.
semipassive
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a word derived from
passive.
Example Sentences
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In most of these modes of motion the body is passive or semipassive, save in such motions as skating and rotating on the feet.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis
