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.
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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
Homo Sovieticus displayed self-abasement, passivity in the face of authority and extreme conformity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Clement, so exquisitely low-key in “Flight of the Conchords,” ramps up that energy just a few clicks for a character defined in part by his passivity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
And from the absolute passivity of their limbs, they seemed in the last stages of exhaustion.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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