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Submission to others or to outside influences
Answer for the clue "Submission to others or to outside influences ", 11 letters:
passiveness
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Word definitions for passiveness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The condition of being passive; passivity.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. submission to others or to outside influences [syn: passivity ] the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative [syn: passivity ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from passive + -ness .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Passiveness \Pas"sive*ness\, n. 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.
Usage examples of passiveness.
The ritual condemned his act, but if Rameses in the realm of inexorable justice and supernal wisdom did not, how should he reconcile the threats of the ritual and the evident passiveness of the royal soul?
And all the time the girl did nothing, made no attempt to resist or push him away, just yielded with a dumb sullen passiveness to his embraces, her face smouldering with a slow sullen passion that he could not fathom or define.
In other words it is the negative quality of passiveness either in recoverable latency or insipient latescence.