passivity
Example Sentences
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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
But accepting that is a recipe for passivity.
From Slate • May 21, 2025
However, those Americans and their leaders who believe in real democracy must move from a reaction frame and passivity to an action frame and exercising their agency and rights very quickly.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2025
Being a suppression, not merely a repression, it produced not frustration, but something more ominous, perhaps, in the long rim: passivity.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
