Converse of object

• encourage: As video encourages passivity, it can prove difficult to engage the attention of students.

• engender: Feelings of political exclusion and hopelessness engender damaging passivity punctuated by urban unrest.

• emphasize: Instead their analysis emphasized the passivity imposed upon workers by the dominance of the media.

• promote: The biomedical model of care predominates in these areas of medicine, potentially promoting patient passivity.

• explain: The AK explained the passivity of the workers when faced by this conflict in the enemy camp by their defeat in early 1933.

• temporize: From this general perspective, ABC for a Marxist, he contrives however to make a recipe of temporizing passivity and national nihilism.

Adjective modifier

• political: In the triumph of Royalist counter-revolution Milton saw the dangers of political passivity, of ideological sloth.

• complete: In addition, the complete passivity of the wavelength router enables a totally passive hub.

• female: He loathed the bourgeois notions of acceptable sexuality and sexual behavior, and in particular the tradition of female passivity.

• apparent: Accepting their apparent passivity is clearly no way forward.

• relative: Behind the relative passivity of this year's delegations are problems that could undermine the health and credibility of the NPT regime.

• certain: There has to be a certain passivity in our attitude to our preaching, if we are not to be manipulative.

Modifies a noun

• zone: A one meter wide red " passivity zone " surrounds this area, making the full competition area 9m in diameter.

Noun used with modifier

• audience: One of expanded cinema's major aims is to work against audience passivity and compel active participation in one form or another.

Preposition: in

• face: We can come close to an Islamic passivity in the face of trouble.

Preposition: of

• woman: But the passivity of the woman becomes her greatest strength.

• mass: However, once again, the key element in the equation was the passivity of the masses.

• response: While some British progressives, including Clare Short, denounced the passivity of the international response to the genocide, most were silent.

• worker: The AK explained the passivity of the workers when faced by this conflict in the enemy camp by their defeat in early 1933.

• state: He will protest in vain, so far as he seeks to rehabilitate the old absolute doctrine of the economic passivity of the State.