PASSIVELY
Pas"sive*ly, adv.
1. In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.
2. As a passive verb; in the passive voice.
PASSIVENESS
Pas"sive*ness, n.
Defn: 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.
PASSIVITY
Pas*siv"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. passivité.]
1. Passiveness; — opposed to activity. Jer. Taylor.
2. (Physics)
Defn: The tendency of a body to remain in a given state, either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body; inertia. Cheyne.
3. (Chem.)