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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Passiveness

· Pas·sive·ness · IPA
01 n. The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.
  1. 1.
    The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.
    “To be an effect implies passiveness, or the being subject to the power and action of its cause.” — J. Edwards.