passiveness
11passiveness — pas·sive·ness || pæsɪvnɪs n. passive attitude, submissiveness, state of not reacting to outside stimulus …
12passiveness — n. 1. Passivity. 2. Passibility. 3. Patience, calmness, submission …
13passiveness — n 1. unresponsiveness, undemonstrativeness, dispassion, stoicism, philosophi calness; impassiveness, impassivity, stolidity, stolidness, bovinity; imperturbability, unprovokability; cool, coolness, composure. 2. inactivity, nonparticipation,… …
14passiveness — pas·sive·ness …
15passiveness — noun 1. submission to others or to outside influences • Syn: ↑passivity • Derivationally related forms: ↑passive • Hypernyms: ↑submissiveness 2. the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative …
16passivity — noun 1. the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑passiveness • Derivationally related forms: ↑passive (for: ↑passiveness), ↑passive …
17contemplation — Synonyms and related words: Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, a wise passiveness, absorbed attention, absorption, advisement, aid prayer, anticipation, appeal, application, ataraxia, ataraxy, beadroll, beads,… …
18quietism — Synonyms and related words: Quakerism, a wise passiveness, acquiescence, amenability, ataraxia, ataraxy, blank mind, blankmindedness, blankness, calm of mind, calmness, compliance, composure, contemplation, contemplative life, do nothing policy,… …
19Negative capability — describes the resistance to a set of institutional arrangements or a system of knowledge about the world and human experience. It explains the capacity of human beings to reject the totalizing constraints of a closed context, and to both… …
20Dog society — form a family group in which individuals display assertiveness or passiveness, rather than dominance and submission. While the majority of research to date indicates that domestic dogs conform to a hierarchy around an Alpha Beta Omega structure,… …
