Pas″sive‐ness, n. 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.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.