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passivity

How to use passivity in a sentence

As Brooks registers those words, Poitier’s face is so composed you could mistake its quietude for passivity.

This is actually a sign of submissiveness, a sign of passivity, a sign of weakness.

From an active state of resistance the ego traversed a descending curve ending in absolute passivity.

DOPESAX ROHMER

Then he would relax his whole being and let himself be once more bewitched into passivity by clouds and waving grasses.

If then the active man be859 something qualified, "activity" and "passivity" should not be referred to relation.

Likewise, what is both "active" and "passive" becomes such in participating in "activity" and "passivity."

He quaffed deeply and exhaustively that cup of joy in the quiescence and passivity of complete happiness.

Yet it pleased, it somewhat relieved, his kinsman to see his passivity as not a little foolish.

The disgusting erudition, the lazy, inactive passivity, the timid submission.

But the exclusion of freedom is physical necessity; the exclusion of passivity is moral necessity.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985