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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Passiveness

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
passiveness

1650s, from passive + -ness.

Wiktionary
passiveness

n. The condition of being passive; passivity.

WordNet
passiveness

  1. n. submission to others or to outside influences [syn: passivity]

  2. the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative [syn: passivity]

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.