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- noun Plural form of
passivity .
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Examples
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I came back and scored two points on him for passivities, or advantage points.
Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008
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I came back and scored two points on him for passivities, or advantage points.
Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008
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I came back and scored two points on him for passivities, or advantage points.
Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008
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I came back and scored two points on him for passivities, or advantage points.
Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008
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Besides pleasure and desire, which are passivities or passions, there are other emotions derived from pleasure and desire, which are attributable to us in so far as we are active.
The Ethics 2007
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Accordingly, among created things, activities and passivities are mutual.
The Monadology 2004
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Gardens, Dreamlands — passivities more or less aimless.
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What was Cousin Hetty's life now, with its tiny inhibitions, its little passivities?
The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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How much then does it signify when God comes out from nature, out of all abstractions and abstractive epithets, to be acted personally in just those glorious and divine passivities that we have least discerned in him and scarcely dare impute to him.
Sermons for the New Life. 1802-1876 1876
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One of the greatest tonics to our all-round well-being is a richly colourful social life that revolves around activities not passivities (i.e. dancing not tv).
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