passivity
- apathy n.
- compliance n.
- compliancy n.
- ease n.
- fatalism n.
- impassivity n.
- inaction n.
- incuriosity n.
- incuriousness n.
- inertia n.
- insensibleness n.
- laziness n.
- listlessness n.
- naturalness n.
- nonagression n.
- nonviolence n.
- passiveness n.
- patience n.
- phlegm n.
- shiftlessness n.
- slothfulness n.
- sluggardness n.
- stoicism n.
- stolidity n.
- stolidness n.
- submission n.
- unceremoniousness n.
- uninterest n.
- unresponsiveness n.
- unrestraint n.
Example Sentences
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"A strategy of passivity in the face of what is happening is not a strategy," is how Miliband put it in an interview with Jewish News, external.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Do you have a theory for why this public passivity is so ingrained?
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
The shah had offered cultural freedom and economic opportunity, hoping for political passivity but getting mass demonstrations instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
At first I couldn’t come up with even a basic story idea, but in a stroke of visionary passivity, I outsourced the job to Sora’s famous cousin, ChatGPT.
From Barron's ● Dec. 12, 2025
“It is a willful action. To slip into passivity and allow a poison to do all the work is an embarrassment to who and what we are.”
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
Vocabulary lists containing passivity
Unit 3: Compelling Evidence
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Elie Wiesel's "Hope, Despair and Memory" (1986)
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The Bluest Eye
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