Synonyms for amenableness
- acquiescence
- agreeableness
- amenability
- amiability
- compliance
- compliancy
- cooperativeness
- deference
- good-naturedness
- obedience
- submissiveness
- tractableness
- accommodativeness
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Antonyms for amenableness
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Other social assets of this type are amenableness, affability, hospitality and approachableness.
WORD ORIGIN
1590s, "liable," from Anglo-French amenable, Middle French amener "answerable" (to the law), from à "to" (see ad-) + mener "to lead," from Latin minare "to drive (cattle) with shouts," variant of minari "threaten" (see menace (n.)). Sense of "tractable" is from 1803, from notion of disposed to answer or submit to influence. Related: Amenably.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR AMENABLENESS
amenability
nouncomplaisancecompliancy
nounobedienceliability
nounanswerability, responsibilityopenness
nounexposuresubmissiveness
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