passivity
English
/pæˈsɪvɪti/
noun
Definitions
- The state of being passive.
- Submissiveness.
- A lack of initiative.
Etymology
Suffix from English passive (express the suffering feeling) root from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (hurt, hate).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*peh₁-
Gloss
hurt, hate
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
憎
Emoji
🤕
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antipassive English
- endopassive English
- exopassive English
- impassive English
- mediopassive English
- neutropassive English
- nonpassive English
- nonpassivity English
- passionate English
- passival English
- passivate English
- passivation English
- passive English
- passively English
- passiveness English
- passivise English
- passivism English
- passivist English
- passivistic English
- passivization English
- passivize English
- patience English
- penitential English
- penitentially English
- penitently English
- pseudopassive English
- repentance English
- repentant English
- repentantly English
- transpassive English
- unpassive English
- impatientia Latin
- paene Latin
- paenitentia Latin
- paeniteo Latin
- paenitere Latin
- paenitēns Latin
- passio Latin
- patiens Latin
- patientia Latin
- penitente Spanish, Castilian
- πῆμα Ancient Greek
- ἀπήμων Ancient Greek
- *peh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *fijandz Proto-Germanic
- pasiv Albanian
- *píHyati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- passive
- patience
- passival
- passivist
- passivate
- passively
- passivise
- passivism
- passivize
- unpassive
- impassive
- repentant
- repentance
- exopassive
- penitently
- passionate
- nonpassive
- passivistic
- antipassive
- passiveness
- passivation
- endopassive
- penitential
- repentantly
- transpassive
- mediopassive
- nonpassivity
- pseudopassive
- passivization
- penitentially
- neutropassive