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reflexive collapse: referring back to itself

middle collapse: the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"; an intermediate part or section; "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle; time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period; "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April"; between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties"; of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages; "Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500"; "Middle Gaelic"; put in the middle

active collapse: a person devoted to the active life; characterized by energetic activity; "an active toddler"; "active as a gazelle"; "an active man is a man of action"; engaged in full-time work; "active duty"; "though past retirement age he is still active in his profession"; full of activity or engaged in continuous activity; "an active seaport"; "an active bond market"; "an active account"; tending to become more severe or wider in scope; "active tuberculosis"; disposed to take action or effectuate change; "a director who takes an active interest in corporate operations"; "an active antagonism"; "he was active in drawing attention to their grievances"; (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt; "active volcanos"; (of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting; expressing action rather than a state of being; used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water'); expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: "Hemingway favors active constructions"; exerting influence or producing a change or effect; "an active ingredient"; of the sun; characterized by a high level activity in sunspots and flares and radio emissions; in operation; "keep hope alive"; "the tradition was still alive"; "an active tradition"; taking part in an activity; "an active member of the club"; "he was politically active"; "the participating organizations"; engaged in or ready for military or naval operations; "on active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review the fighting forces"

passive collapse: lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith; expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb; "academics seem to favor passive sentences"; peacefully resistant in response to injustice; "passive resistance"

nonparticipation collapse

waiting game collapse: a strategy of delay

dormancy collapse: a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction; "the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy"

inactivity collapse: being inactive; being less active

noninvolvement collapse

nonopposing collapse

immobility collapse: the quality of not moving

noncommitted collapse

stasis collapse: inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces; an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped

pacifism collapse: the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration; the doctrine that all violence in unjustifiable

nonviolence collapse

on the fence collapse

vegetation collapse: inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation"; an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart); all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"; the process of growth in plants

voice collapse: a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated; "the voice of the law"; "the Times is not the voice of New York"; "conservatism has many voices"; the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech; "A shrill voice sounded behind us"; the ability to speak; "he lost his voice"; the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract; "a singer takes good care of his voice"; "the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations"; something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression; "the wee small voice of conscience"; "the voice of experience"; "he said his voices told him to do it"; a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance; "the noisy voice of the waterfall"; "the incessant voices of the artillery"; (metonymy) a singer; "he wanted to hear trained voices sing it"; (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes; give voice to; "He voiced his concern"; utter with vibrating vocal chords

procrastination collapse: the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time

reconciled collapse: made compatible or consistent; (followed by `to') no longer opposed; "after a time she became reconciled even to diplomatic receptions"

unassertive collapse: inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence; "a shy unassertive person"

indolence collapse: inactivity resulting from a dislike of work

unaroused collapse

logy collapse

centrist collapse: a person who takes a position in the political center; supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative

quietism collapse: a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God

idleness collapse: having no employment

passive resistance collapse: peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate

inertia collapse: (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain is state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force

nonresistive collapse

insubordination collapse: an insubordinate act; defiance of authority

nonaligned collapse: not affiliated with any faction, party, or cause

quiescence collapse: quiet and inactive restfulness

lesbianism collapse: female homosexuality

necrophilia collapse: an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies

homosexuality collapse: a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex

sexual preference collapse

paraphilia collapse: abnormal sexual activity

sapphism collapse

masochism collapse: sexual pleasure obtained from receiving punishment (physical or psychological)

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