pseudoactive
adj/ˌ(p)suːdəʊˈaktɪv/
Etymology From pseudo- + active.
1
Apparently, but not truly, active.
- […] to avoid awareness of ideas and feelings associated with the stressful event, to compensate for an immature level of ego development, and to continue a pseudoactive but actually passive-dependent life trajectory.1997, Mardi Jon Horowitz, Stress response syndromes: PTSD, grief, and adjustment disorders:
- […] our inadequate agency and our passivity may narcissistically ensnare us into believing that we are indeed in charge of the whole complex of events and thus determine a pseudoactive sense of futile activity.2009, Gemma Corradi Fiumara, Spontaneity: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry, page 63: