Passivity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PASSIVITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being passive
• acceptance of what happens, without active response or resistance
• the state of inactivity of a metal made unreactive by a thin inert surface layer of oxide
• Passiveness; -- opposed to activity.
• The tendency of a body to remain in a given state, either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body; inertia.
• The quality or condition of any substance which has no inclination to chemical activity; inactivity.
• the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative
• submission to others or to outside influences
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 PASSIVITY

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Words that contain PASSIVITY

impassivity21

How to use PASSIVITY in a sentence

• The business of the younger child is with real things and activity, not with symbols and passivity, therefore he is not really in need of reading, writing, or arithmetic.
• The latter, however, perhaps by reason of his longer detention, showed none of the passivity of his companion.
• Sensation and thought are not different in kind, and if the former is called a passive state, still passivity is nothing other than diminished activity.
• Passivity is diminished activity, negation of the totality of reality.
• The nation had passed from action to talk, and from talk to passivity, and from passivity to resignation.
• This passivity was almost dream-like, and yet, in its way, it was positive almost to a pitch of exaltation.
• After luncheon, while we were smoking, one of my young friends, who could bear passivity no longer, played a few chords of Wagner on a piano.
• The four sang on with the phlegmatic passivity of persons who had long ago settled the question, and there being no mistake about it, felt that further thought was not required.
• She lived over and over the scene with him, she endured with desperate passivity the recollection of his burning lips on her bosom, his fingers pressing into her side.
• He was relaxed in an exhausted passivity, a beaten man.
• She was conscious throughout that his endurance was being put to the utmost test, and only by the most complete passivity could she help him.
• From an active state of resistance the ego traversed a descending curve ending in absolute passivity.
• Intellectual effort was destructive to the blessed state, which was pure passivity, untroubled contemplation in its early stages, before the oncoming of rapture.
• In other words, you enabled any evilly-disposed person among them to give rein to his wantonness by your passivity.
• Passivity, which could be regarded as a craven acceptance of all the material and moral horrors ready to fall upon the nation, was not to be thought of for a moment.
• All three of those present had many times seen Galen Albret possessed by his noted fits of anger, so striking in contrast to his ordinary contained passivity.
• She had liked the story, although the thought of men fighting over a woman made her feel sick, as any conspicuous example of the passivity common in her sex always did.
• It insists that man is by nature a passive, an experiencing creature, and that he can do nothing well in action unless he has first learned a right passivity.
• Her almost childish passivity was like a slow and heavy poison in his blood.
• A moment of emotion, that was passivity itself, obsessed her.
• Now, while I am in this condition of passivity, suppose the spot be made to move slowly to one side by some force external to myself.
• She was now in the luxury of passivity, when we throw our burden on the Powers above, and do not love them.
• If, therefore, it has seemed up to this point as if all depended on passivity, let me now assert, with conviction more intense, that all depends on activity.
• Passivity of resistance at no time appealed to the forceful Abe.
• The soul can only see and touch the Original Essence in a condition of complete passivity and rest.
• And the enemy sickened her because it was full of a monstrous passivity.
• Theirs was the passivity of a queue waiting in line before the entrance to a theatre or a ball- grounds.
• Only when composed and at ease in the holy calm of true passivity can one think over his entire being and get a view of life and the world.
• Hence we need to find the happy mean between the material activity of our own civilization, and the mental passivity of that of the Orientals.
• There began to be something terrible, something fateful, in her passivity.
• Into her silence and passivity he read the reflection of his own adoring love and thought it hers.
• It is simply the case of the box which cannot come into existence without the activity of the carpenter and the passivity of the wood.

Similar words containing PASSIV without suffix ity

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