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Definition of Passivities
1. passivity [n] - See also: passivity
Literary usage of Passivities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza by Benedictus de Spinoza, Robert Harvey Monro Elwes (1891)
"I-V111- Besides pleasure and desire, which are passivities or passions, there
are other emotions derived from pleasure and desire, which are attributable to ..."
2. Psychology by Antonio Rosmini (1886)
"Activities and passivities are frequently intermixed and intertwined in the same
being;* so that in one being there are sometimes distinguishable several ..."
3. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1898)
"... two passivities. (a.) Passivity in silver nitrate solutions.—On this point
also they were not agreed. The writer, using annealed wires, had found that ..."
4. General Metaphysics by John Rickaby (1890)
"But in every case there is no reality beyond the absolute agents and the absolute
activities and passivities, though these at the same time that they are ..."
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