Definition of "passivism" []

• Passive character, attitude, quality, or behavior. (noun)

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• "Originalism is, in a sense, a variant of "passivism," but it is not institutional passivism."
• "Maybe people weren't ready for it, almost in the same way we're not ready for passivism today."
• "It is thoroughly disappointing that the editors of the New York Times continue to allow Kristof to write about China, as this sort of writing will someday be a monument for how Western passivism in the face of the Chinese economy lead to the prolonged tenure of a totalitarian government."