Antonyms for passiveness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pa-siv-i-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : pæˈsɪv ɪ ti |
Definition of passiveness
Origin :- 1650s, from passive + -ness.
- noun apathy
- Reflects on the Harlowe family, and particularly on Mrs. Harlowe, for her passiveness.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- But it was absolutely necessary first that she should be reduced to passiveness.
- Extract from : « Romola » by George Eliot
- The strength in her was the strength of passiveness; she could endure, but she could not battle.
- Extract from : « Virginia » by Ellen Glasgow
- Even then Moslem passiveness proves often an immovable inertia.
- Extract from : « The Weird Orient » by Henry Iliowizi
- One is led to suppose, from their passiveness, that they are content with the system.
- Extract from : « A Five Years' Residence in Buenos Ayres » by George Thomas Love
- The essence of these lies in the passiveness and neutrality of the intellectual powers.
- Extract from : « Thoughts on Man » by William Godwin
- Oswald, with the passiveness of a tired child, submitted to it all.
- Extract from : « The Last of the Vikings » by John Bowling
- And this passiveness was so unusual with her that it alarmed and irritated Percival by turns.
- Extract from : « Under False Pretences » by Adeline Sergeant
- Miss Arden often wondered afterwards at her own passiveness through all this.
- Extract from : « Checkmate » by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- She folded her hands with a passiveness which boded future ill.
- Extract from : « The Grey Cloak » by Harold MacGrath
Synonyms for passiveness
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