passiveness

Other forms of passiveness

plural

passivenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about passiveness

What does passiveness mean?

passiveness means "submission to others or to outside influences". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in passiveness?

passiveness has 4 syllables: pas-si-ve-ness. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for passiveness?

Close synonyms include passivity, passivity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is passiveness a common word?

passiveness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.