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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. submission to others or to outside influences;
[syn: passivity, passiveness]

2. the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative;
[syn: passivity, passiveness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Passiveness \Pas"sive*ness\, n. The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission. [1913 Webster] To be an effect implies passiveness, or the being subject to the power and action of its cause. --J. Edwards. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

passiveness n 1: submission to others or to outside influences [syn: passivity, passiveness] 2: the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative [syn: passivity, passiveness]