Passiveness: alternatives and connections

Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a…

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The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; i…

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The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.

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Same as Torpidness.

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The qualityy or state of being torpid.

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Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.

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The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter.

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That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direc…

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Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.

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Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.

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Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.

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Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.

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Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.

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Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.

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Passiveness; -- opposed to activity.

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