passiveness
41quiescence — Synonyms and related words: a wise passiveness, abidingness, awful silence, changelessness, cold storage, constancy, contemplation, contemplative life, dead, dead of night, deathlike silence, do nothing policy, do nothingism, do nothingness,… …
42stasis — Synonyms and related words: a wise passiveness, abeyance, abidingness, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia, changelessness, constancy, contemplation, contemplative life, deadliness, deathliness, do nothing policy, do nothingism, do nothingness, dormancy …
43vegetation — Synonyms and related words: a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, botany, budding, burgeoning, catalepsy, catatonia, contemplation, contemplative life, deadliness, deathliness, development, do nothing policy, do nothingism, do nothingness,… …
44waiting game — Synonyms and related words: a wise passiveness, acceptance, contemplation, contemplative life, do nothing policy, do nothingism, do nothingness, dormancy, endurance, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, fortitude, idleness, immobility,… …
45Obedience — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Obedience >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 obedience obedience Sgm: N 1 observance observance &c. 772 Sgm: N 1 compliance compliance Sgm: N 1 submission submission &c. 725 Sgm: N 1 subjection subjection …
46Inexcitability — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Absence of excitability, or of excitement. < N PARAG:Inexcitability >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 inexcitability inexcitability imperturbability inirritability Sgm: N 1 even temper even temper tranquil mind dispassion Sgm: N… …
47Passivity — Pas*siv i*ty, n. [Cf. F. passivit[ e].] 1. Passiveness; opposed to activity. Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 2. (Physics) The tendency of a body to remain in a given state, either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body; inertia. Cheyne.… …
48passive — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin passivus, from passus, past participle Date: 14th century 1. a. (1) acted upon by an external agency (2) receptive to outside impressions or influences b. (1) asserting that the grammatical… …
49Dhole — This article is about the species of wild dog. For H. P. Lovecraft s fictional monster, see Dhole (Cthulhu Mythos). For the town in France, see Cuon, Maine et Loire. Dhole[1] Temporal range: Post Pleistocene Recent …
50Catholic sex abuse cases — The Catholic sex abuse cases are a series of convictions, trials and ongoing investigations into allegations of sex crimes committed by Catholic priests and members of religious orders.[1] These cases began receiving public attention beginning in …
