docility

English

Etymology

From Middle French docilité, from Latin docilitas.

Noun

docility (usually uncountable, plural docilities)

The quality of being docile.
Couldn't docility from totalitarian indoctrination be a human shortcoming?

Synonyms

Antonyms

rebelliousness

Derived terms

undocility

Translations

the quality of being docile

Catalan: docilitat (ca) f
French: docilité (fr) f
Galician: docilidade (gl) f
German: Gelehrigkeit (de) f
Italian: docilità (it) f
Japanese: 従順 (ja) (jūjun)
Latin: docilitas f
Occitan: docilitat (oc) f
Portuguese: docilidade (pt) f
Romanian: docilitate (ro)
Serbo-Croatian: docilnost
Spanish: docilidad (es) f
Swedish: foglighet (sv) c
Turkish: uysallık (tr), yumuşak başlılık

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