Similar words: aggressiveness, decisiveness, pervasiveness, abrasiveness, persuasiveness, impulsiveness, assertiveness, passive. Meaning: ['pæsɪvnɪs] 
n. 1. submission to others or to outside influences 2. the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative.
n. 1. submission to others or to outside influences 2. the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative. 
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1 One result of voter passiveness Nov. 5 was the return to office of two leaders with highly advertised ethical problems.
2 The people are returned to passiveness, inertness, and unconsciousness; the legislator enters into omnipotence.
3 The second unskilful response is passiveness, a form of surrender.
4 In fact, Japan's passiveness today is in large measure a calculated and reasonable reaction to its behavior during the Second World War.
5 Right. You really have to have a wise passiveness that moment to really think that every piece of art have that kind of duty behind it.
6 This is quite different that kind of passiveness and government allowance means without considering profit.
7 Its peace has been used to encourage passiveness, and this was never the intent.
8 Conclusions were put forward, and there were three kinds of behavioral models, which were passiveness feedback behavior, game choice behavior and initiative behavior.
9 It is as if you dabble in aggressiveness, competitiveness, and playful enthusiasm and then retreat into passiveness, compromise, and meditation for a while.
10 As this region had more connection with the world in economy and culture, the opening was changed from passiveness to activeness.
11 Yet, the tidiness so typical of Japan, its craziness about work and passiveness of the new generation, would come up from time to time, as they have left such a deep impression on my mind.
12 By the end of World War II, several reforms had occurred, which embodied not only the passiveness of legal system during the development of society in Japan, but also the strong independence.
13 This article elaborates that big class bring about low teaching efficiency and individual passiveness.
14 However, the judicial system must stick to the principles of limitedness,(www.Sentencedict.com) passiveness and steadiness.
15 It helps enterprises to realize their target profit forcast and actual profits, helps to change these two realizing processes from passiveness into positiveness and maximizes enterprises profits.
16 Passive expression exists in all Sino-Tibetan languages, however they do not have the same degree of passiveness and lack a common way to express the concept.
17 Nevertheless, there still remain many problems, such as , some passiveness of the central bank's interference in foreign currency exchange, and the lack of resilience of changes of exchange rate.
18 What this times need research university teaching is the transfer from "instruction" to "study", from " passiveness " to "activeness".
19 Henry David Thoreau: "A truly rich man doesn't have money, but rather courage, truth, and an inner glory that transcends the passiveness of our physical beings.
20 I want to write about how intellectuals face the destruction of faith after social turmoil, their passiveness and their struggles.
21 The government unfurls her publicity from aspects of both passiveness and activeness.
22 A cool shade can bring about the negative side of blue, symbolizing depression, coldness, and passiveness.
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