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semipassive
Derived word form of passive

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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 Ellis, Havelock