docility

docility
n
1. manageability, manageableness, tractability, tractableness, malleability, malleableness, ductility, ductileness, pliability, pliableness; passiveness, timidity, timidness, meekness, gentleness, mildness; acquiescence, compliance, cooperativeness, agreeableness, willingness; obedience, dutifulness, bid-dability, biddableness, responsiveness, submissiveness, obsequiousness.
2. teachability, teachableness, educability, educableness, instructability, schoolability; trainability, trainableness, coachability, disciplinability, disciplinableness.

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  • Docility — Do*cil i*ty, n. [L. docilitas, fr. docilis: cf. F. docilit[ e].] 1. teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness. [Obs. or R.] [1913 Webster] 2. Willingness to be taught; tractableness. [1913 Webster] The humble docility of little… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • docility — index amenability, capitulation, resignation (passive acceptance) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • docility — (n.) 1550s, from Fr. docilité (15c.), from L. docilitatem (nom. docilitas), from docilis (see DOCILE (Cf. docile)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • docility — docile ► ADJECTIVE ▪ ready to accept control or instruction; submissive. DERIVATIVES docilely adverb docility noun. ORIGIN Latin docilis, from docere teach …   English terms dictionary

  • docility — noun see docile …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • docility — See docilely. * * * …   Universalium

  • docility — noun The quality of being docile. Syn: docileness …   Wiktionary

  • docility — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. tractability, obedience, submissiveness, compliance, meekness, mildness, gentleness, manageability, pliability, pliancy, acquiescence, willingness, amenability, flexibility, adaptability, malleability, tameness, subservience …   English dictionary for students

  • docility — do·cil·i·ty || dəʊ sɪlÉ™tɪ n. agreeableness, manageability; compliance, submissiveness, obedience …   English contemporary dictionary

  • docility — n. Teachableness, readiness to learn, tractableness, pliableness, pliancy, gentleness …   New dictionary of synonyms

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