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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She argues that Richmond, alienated from the king and disgusted by parliamentary passivity, kindled a printed firestorm in the public sphere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
Still, the Dodgers won’t feign passivity this time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
This claim of passivity kidded nobody except maybe himself.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2025
Her hunger for earth, the cloc-cloc of her parents' bones, the impatience of her blood as it faced Pietro Crespi's passivity were relegated to the attic of her memory.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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