Definition for Passiveness:

• submission to others or to outside influences

Synonyms for Passiveness:

• n.

  •apathy (noun)
  • unconcern,
  • indifference,
  • resignation,
  • disinterest.
  •attribute (noun)
  • passiveness.
  •humility (noun)
  • nonresistance,
  • subjection,
  • self-abnegation,
  • lack of pride,
  • sheepishness,
  • fawning,
  • obsequiousness,
  • self-abasement,
  • timidity,
  • unobtrusiveness,
  • docility,
  • docilities,
  • Non-resistance,
  • timorousness,
  • subservience,
  • shyness.
  •patience (noun)
  • long sufferings,
  • sub-mission,
  • long-sufferings,
  • sufferances,
  • longanimities,
  • longsufferings,
  • sub missions,
  • long suffering,
  • sub mission,
  • yieldings,
  • sub-missions,
  • longsuffering,
  • self control,
  • even tempers.
  •uninterest (noun)
  • un-interests,
  • un interests,
  • un-interest,
  • un interest.
  •unresponsiveness (noun)
  • un-responsivenesses,
  • un responsivenesses,
  • un-responsiveness,
  • un responsiveness.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • emotionlessness,
  • humility,
  • impassivity,
  • insensitivity,
  • insouciance,
  • lethargy,
  • lifelessness,
  • longanimity,
  • nonviolence,
  • passivity,
  • patience,
  • phlegm,
  • stolidity,
  • stolidness,
  • sufferance,
  • toleration,
  • unresponsiveness,
  • Incuriosity,
  • Incuriousness,
  • Insensibleness,
  • halfheartedness,
  • uninterest,
  • even temper,
  • selfcontrol.

Paraphrases for Passiveness:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    passivity.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    inactivity, inertia.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    inaction.

Antonyms for Passiveness:

• n.

  • apathy
    concern.

Passiveness Sentence Examples:

• With them he had fared well, winning over them a high degree of power by enforcing a method seemingly quite at variance with the Provencial temperament, by teaching the doctrine and the discipline of a mystic death, of absolute passiveness, of entire forgetfulness of self.

• He calls this latter a " wise passiveness" - a " dreaming": but is nevertheless an active passivity - a waking dream.

Hyponym for Passiveness:

• n.

  • attribute
    submissiveness.