passivity

From passive +‎ -ity.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /pæˈsɪvɪti/

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passivity (countable and uncountable, plural passivities)

1. The state of being passive.
2. Submissiveness.
3. A lack of initiative.
4. (psychiatry) The belief that one's thoughts or actions are influenced or controlled by an external agent.^[3]

• passiveness

• activity

• passion
• passionate
• passive
• patience
• patient

Wikiquote

• “passivity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “passivity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.