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unpassive en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + passive.

Meanings

1. Not passive.
   • What is different, as we have attempted to show, is just how unpassive and unfetishized she is by the camera. 2004, Susan Hayward, Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign, page 95:
   • […] he sees Kafka's novels as a plea for moral passivity—which is to miss, among other things, Kafka's occasional strand of subterranean rebelliousness and his quite unpassive humor. 1951, Partisan Review, volume 18, page 128:

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