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The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.

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  1. n. The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.
  2. n. submission to others or to outside influences
  3. n. the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative
  4. 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.
  5. The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.To be an effect implies passiveness, or the being subject to thepower and action of its cause. J. Edwards.
  6. n. The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.