Passiveness is valid Scrabble Word

Is passiveness a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is passiveness valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

11 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for PASSIVENESS in dictionary:

NOUN:

the state of being passive
The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.
submission to others or to outside influences
the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative

ADJECTIVE:

(of radar or a satellite) receiving or reflecting radiation from a transmitter or target rather than generating its own signal
(of a heating system) making use of incident sunlight as an energy source
accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance
denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g. they were killed as opposed to the active form he killed them).
(of a circuit or device) containing no source of electromotive force
(of a metal) made unreactive by a thin inert surface layer of oxide.

the passive voice.
a passive form of a verb.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

acted upon by an external agency; receptive to outside impressions or influences asserting that the grammatical subject of a verb is subjected to or affected by the action represented by that verb; containing or yielding a passive verb form; lacking in energy or will; lethargic; tending not to take an active or dominant part; induced by an outside agency

Words related to PASSIVENESS

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Words that contain PASSIVENESS

impassiveness20 passivenesses18 impassivenesses22

How to use PASSIVENESS in a sentence

Now that I have been thrust out of active life and forced to make up my mind to perfect passiveness, I have become a bugbear to myself.
The passiveness of Bartleby sometimes irritated me.
But he tried at times to slumber, sunk in a wise passiveness.
Of fair ability, and great industry in his earlier life, the irresolution and passiveness of advancing age and physical infirmity were now upon him.
These two apertures, together with the passiveness of the public, made the legislative obstacles of no effect whatever.
A feeling of complete passiveness had once more come over her, and she was conscious only of the pleasant animal sensations of warmth and rest.
She was in the state of subjective passiveness when the consciousness of external objects alone seems awake.
It is an identical proposition in verbal disguise, with the fault that it makes negation affirmation, passiveness action.
In 1843 the office of Attorney-General was abolished, by the active efforts of the Democrats aided by the passiveness of the Whigs.
The elbow drawn inward, signifies impotence, fear, subordination, humility, passiveness, poverty of spirit.

Nor less I deem that there are powers, Which of themselves our minds impress, That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.

Similar words containing PASSIVENES without suffix s

impassiveness20 passivenesses18 impassivenesses22

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