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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PASSIVENESS

n.Quality of receiving impressions from external agents or causes; as the passiveness of matter. 1. Passibility; capacity of suffering.
We shall lose our passiveness with our being.
2. Patience; calmness; unresisting submission.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PASSIVENESS

PASSIVENESS Pas "sive *ness, n.

Defn: 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.

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