Usually means: Lack of action or response.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word passivity:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. passivity: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. passivity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. passivity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. passivity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. passivity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Passivity, passivity: Wordnik
  7. passivity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. passivity: Wiktionary
  9. passivity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. passivity: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. passivity: Dictionary.com
  12. Passivity (behavior), Passivity (engineering): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Passivity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. passivity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. passivity: Rhymezone
  16. Passivity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. passivity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. passivity: Free Dictionary
  19. passivity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. passivity: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. passivity: Legal dictionary
  2. passivity: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Passivity (engineering), passivity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. passivity: Medical dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PASSIVITY: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (passivity)

noun:  The state of being passive.
noun:  Submissiveness.
noun:  A lack of initiative.
noun:  (psychiatry) The belief that one's thoughts or actions are influenced or controlled by an external agent.

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