NOUN
- the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative
- submission to others or to outside influences
How To Use passiveness In A Sentence
- He said low genetic diversity is a natural part of the domestication process and that Dukha reindeer are selected for traits such as passiveness and strong backs that support saddles and riders.
- Women's bell-like tittering and men's droning passiveness filled the void my nervousness made.
- She couldn't possibly struggle, she knew, or she'd jeopardize her intent there, and her passiveness was mistaken by Alex to be reciprocated passion.
- It's really the passiveness that makes such a mess of things.
- That passiveness is something I'm consciously working on changing.
- Conclusions were put forward, and there were three kinds of behavioral models, which were passiveness feedback behavior, game choice behavior and initiative behavior.
- Human beings, who, like everything else, exist svabhâvât, 'by themselves,' are supposed to be capable of arriving at Nirv_r_itti, or passiveness, which is nearly synonymous with Nirvâ_n_a. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion
- An increased awareness of the power of big business should provide an incentive to participate in the democratic process in order to end any passiveness on the part of the government.
- passiveness" of woman's love, but the passive woman is only one who does not love -- she merely consents to have affection lavished upon her. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors
- In other words it is the negative quality of passiveness either in recoverable latency or insipient latescence. What Is Man? and Other Essays
