passiveness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun submission to others or to outside influences
    passivity.
  2. noun the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative
    passivity.

WordNet

Pas"sive*ness noun
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913