passiveness
- n submission to others or to outside influences
- n the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative
- An official report from Estonia excoriates the republic's Economy Minister for "complete passiveness and impotence"; he did not make chemical and pulp plants install .
- Most of them just waited "with a doomed passiveness" to be sent back to France.
- A leading Warsaw weekly, Polityka, lauds Gierek for having done "an immense amount of work," but notes that "too much passiveness, laziness and impotence have comfortably .