What is the meaning of Passivity?

(n.) The quality or condition of any substance which has no inclination to chemical activity; inactivity.
(n.) Passiveness; -- opposed to activity.
(n.) The tendency of a body to remain in a given state, either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body; inertia.

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