Passive(a.) Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
Passive(a.) Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.
Passive(a.) Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
Passive(a.) Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues.
Passively(adv.) In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.
Passively(adv.) As a passive verb; in the passive voice.
Passiveness(n.) The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.
Passivity(n.) Passiveness; -- opposed to activity.
Passivity(n.) The tendency of a body to remain in a given state, either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body; inertia.
Passivity(n.) The quality or condition of any substance which has no inclination to chemical activity; inactivity.
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