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passiveness

/pa-siv-i-tee/US // pæˈsɪv ɪ ti //

被动性,被动,消极性,被动的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also pas·sive·ness [pas-iv-nis]. /ˈpæs ɪv nɪs/. the state or condition of being passive.
    • : chemical inactivity, especially the resistance to corrosion of certain metals when covered with a coherent oxide layer.

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Examples

  • And particularly when passiveness can enable challengers to the leadership of political Islam to make headway.

  • This silence, this passiveness on the part of their hitherto aggressive and turbulent gaolers was portentous.

  • Poetry stirs the Imagination, the Will, disturbs the passiveness that Beauty produces.

  • But a man's passiveness to a beloved object of our sex may not, perhaps, argue want of courage on proper occasions.

  • But passive architecture without help for its passiveness is unendurable.

  • The provisions, for those who require them, I do not object to, but the passiveness is fatally injurious.