passivity

Other forms of passivity

plural

passivities·

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 passivity

What does passivity mean?

passivity means "the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in passivity?

passivity has 4 syllables: pas-siv-i-ty. The stress falls on "siv". In IPA it is /pəˈsɪvɪti/.

What is another word for passivity?

Close synonyms include passiveness, passiveness. 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 passivity a common word?

passivity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with passivity?

1 word rhymes with passivity. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.