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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

passivistic en · ADJ

Etymology

From passive + -istic.

Meanings

  1. Of or related to passivism.
    • So it isn't a passivistic thing at all. Well, it is passivistic because it's a suggestion — a mantra — to mellow out, to see a larger picture. 1998, John Edgar Wideman, Bonnie TuSmith, Conversations with John Edgar Wideman:

Forms

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most passivistic Degree=Sup lexicographic
more passivistic Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

passivistically