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Strength that chose a quieter costume, not the absence of a spine.
means The tendency to yield to others' wishes or authority rather than asserting your own.
from From Latin submittere — sub ('under') plus mittere ('to send' or 'to let go') — literally 'to send under,' the same root that gives us 'submit.' The '-ive' and '-ness' layered on later, turning an act of yielding into a settled trait of character.
- not weakness
- requires more self-control than dominance does
- biology angle
- lowers cortisol by ceding decisions to someone else
- context swap
- the boardroom tyrant can be the bedroom's eager pupil
- etymology
- from submittere, literally to send underneath