a wise passiveness acceptance contemplation contemplative life do-nothing policy do-nothingism do-nothingness dormancy endurance forbearance forbearing forbearingness fortitude idleness immobility inaction inactivity indolence indulgence inertia inertness laissez-aller laissez-faire laissez-faireism lenience leniency long-sufferance long-suffering longanimity meditation neutralism neutrality neutralness noninvolvement nonparticipation nonresistance nonviolence nonviolent resistance pacifism paralysis passive resistance passive self-annihilation passiveness passivism passivity patience patience of Job patientness perseverance policy procrastination quiescence quietism self-control stagnancy stagnation standpattism stasis stoicism sufferance sweet reasonableness tolerance toleration vegetation vita contemplativa waiting it out watching and waiting