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The art of letting things happen to you, then quietly resenting them.
means Accepting or being acted upon without active response, initiative, or resistance.
from From Latin passivus, meaning capable of suffering, from pati, to suffer or endure — the same root behind passion and patient.
Grammar twinPassive voice hides who did the deed.
Physics cousinPassive solar heating works without any moving parts.
Aggression hybridPassive-aggressive coined by US Army psychiatrists in 1945.