noun
Meaning 1
The state of being passive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
passivity
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
Submissiveness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A lack of initiative.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
The belief that one's thoughts or actions are influenced or controlled by an external agent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sciences
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: passiveness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inactiveness, inactivity, inertia
Narrower terms: apathy, indifference, numbness, spiritlessness, listlessness, torpidity, torpidness, torpor
noun
Meaning 6
submission to others or to outside influences
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: passiveness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: submissiveness
History
Etymology
From passive + -ity.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: pasividá — the state of being passive
- Belarusian: пасі́ўнасць (pasíwnascʹ) — the state of being passive
- Bulgarian: пасивност (pasivnost) — the state of being passive
- Catalan: passivitat — the state of being passive
- Chinese Mandarin: 被動狀態 /被动状态 (bèidòng zhuàngtài) — the state of being passive
- French: passivité — the state of being passive
- Galician: pasividade — the state of being passive
- German: Passivität — the state of being passive
- German: Passivzustand — the state of being passive
- Ancient Greek: πάθησις (páthēsis) — the state of being passive
- Hindi: निष्क्रियता (niṣkriytā) — the state of being passive
- Hungarian: passzivitás — the state of being passive
- Hungarian: tétlenség — the state of being passive
- Irish: éighníomhaíocht — the state of being passive
- Irish: neamhghníomhaíocht — the state of being passive
- Italian: passività — the state of being passive
- Polish: pasywność — the state of being passive
- Polish: bierność — the state of being passive
- Portuguese: passividade — the state of being passive
- Romanian: pasivitate — the state of being passive
- Russian: пассивность (passivnostʹ) — the state of being passive
- Slovak: pasivita — the state of being passive
- Slovak: nečinnosť — the state of being passive
- Spanish: pasividad — the state of being passive
- Ukrainian: паси́вність (pasývnistʹ) — the state of being passive
- German: Unterwürfigkeit — submissiveness
- Bulgarian: инертност (inertnost) — a lack of initiative
- German: Passivität — a lack of initiative
- German: Passivhaltung — a lack of initiative
- Romanian: pasivitate — a lack of initiative
- Slovak: pasivita — a lack of initiative