passively

Definition

In a passive manner; without conscious or self-directed action.

Etymology

From passive + -ly.

Example Sentences

• "Water flowed passively between tanks via the siphon."
• "Due to this pressure aortic and pulmonary valves are opened passively and due to relaxation blood is sucked from the venae cavae into the atrium."
• "For most people, this sacrifice is made easily and instinctively. Not so for otroverts, who are neither willing nor able to passively adopt the social scripts that others do. To the otrovert, who is constantly engaged with the choices and consequences of their individual life, social norms follow a circular logic: […]"

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