docility
- aptness n.
- compliance n.
- conformity n.
- deference n.
- femininity n.
- flexibility n.
- humility n.
- malleability n.
- malleableness n.
- meekness n.
- muliebrity n.
- obedience n.
- piety n.
- pliability n.
- pliableness n.
- pliancy n.
- pliantness n.
- resignation n.
- resiliency n.
- springiness n.
- submission n.
- submissiveness n.
- suppleness n.
- sweetness n.
- tractability n.
- tractableness n.
Example Sentences
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We have trained sloth and docility and are reaping what we have sown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Every expression is judged through a gaze that demands docility.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
But in between docility and pugnacity lies the pathway to effective debate moderation, and I thought Muir and Davis did a fine job walking that road on Tuesday night.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2024
Breeders also value posture, hoof solidity, docility, maternal ability and beauty.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
In this secret music, I could tell those tales I was denied, and, there being no text, none could read whether I spake of docility or insubordination.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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