Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PAS'SIVE-NESS
PAS'SIVE-NESS, n.
- Quality of receiving impressions from external agents or causes; as, the passiveness of matter.
- Passibility; capacity of suffering. We shall lose our passiveness with our being. – Decay of Piety.
- Patience; calmness; unresisting submission. – Fell.
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