The tendency of a body to remain in a given state, either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body; inertia.
The quality or condition of any substance which has no inclination to chemical activity; inactivity.
Passivity is the same as defending injustice. Deepak Chopra
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting. Christopher Hitchens
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. Mao Zedong
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. James Wolcott
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan. Ian Mcewan
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