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The trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative.

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        We said, why is passivity still a factor in the fashion industry?
        The Irish Times
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        I sure hope our passivity didn't contribute to what's going on now.
        The Guardian
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        The gorilla seemed puzzled by the strange passivity of the hairless ape.
        Jungle Tales of Tarzan
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        Cork 2005: There was no creative passivity in last week's What If?
        The Irish Times
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        When faced with barbarity, he insisted passivity could not be an option.
        The Guardian
        Uso de passiveness em inglês
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        But he tried at times to slumber, sunk in a wise passiveness.
        The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
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        How did you connect with her initial passiveness at her crumbling marriage?
        Reuters
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        The silence of the soul before God is no mere passiveness.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture: Psalms
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        This is a passive force, and its passiveness only makes it more formidable.
        From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
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        Reflects on the Harlowe family, and particularly on Mrs. Harlowe, for her passiveness.
        Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1
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        She folded her hands with a passiveness which boded future ill.
        The Grey Cloak
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        Meantime Averil Ward was acquiescing in all Henry's projects with calm desperate passiveness.
        The Trial; Or, More Links of the Daisy Chain
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        The feeling of surrealism, and passiveness, and fogged stupidity, lifted from me instantly.
        Beat the reaper: a novel
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        The essence of these lies in the passiveness and neutrality of the intellectual powers.
        Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries / Inter...
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        One would not believe the utter passiveness of the people.
        Life on the Mississippi
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        We want activity, no doubt, but we want a wise passiveness as its foundation.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI
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        Endeavors to find excuses for her father's ill temper, and for her mother's passiveness.
        Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1
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        Why, therefore, should not the secret of nature's invariableness be, not passiveness, but rightness?'
        The Recreations of a Country Parson
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        As time progressed, the passiveness of Amanda encouraged in Lane his natural love of ruling.
        Married Life; Its Shadows and Sunshine
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        All that was required was a 'wise passiveness' and 'a heart that watches and receives'.
        A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
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        It was a very simple one-totalpassiveness and silence.
        Christian's Mistake
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