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See definition of domestication on Dictionary.com
  • as indiscipline
  • as indomesticity
  • as intraining

synonyms for domestication

  • control
  • development
  • education
  • method
  • practice
  • preparation
  • regulation
  • restraint
  • self-control
  • self-restraint
  • will
  • conduct
  • cultivation
  • curb
  • drill
  • drilling
  • exercise
  • inculcation
  • indoctrination
  • limitation
  • orderliness
  • self-command
  • self-government
  • strictness
  • subordination
  • willpower
  • self-mastery
On this page you'll find 77 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to domestication, such as: control, development, education, method, practice, and preparation.

antonyms for domestication

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  • agitation
  • ignorance
  • award
  • chaos
  • confusion
  • disorder
  • disorganization
  • neglect
  • negligence
  • permissiveness
  • reward
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    How to use domestication in a sentence

    It's worth stopping for a moment to consider just how weird they are within the realm of domestication.
    THE WEIRD GENOMES OF DOMESTICATED FISHJOHN TIMMERNOVEMBER 6, 2020ARS TECHNICA
    The set of genes associated with the domestication of many crops direct the production of two key hormones, florigen and antiflorigen.
    NEW VEGGIES FOR A WARMING PLANET - ISSUE 92: FRONTIERSVIVIANE CALLIERNOVEMBER 4, 2020NAUTILUS
    Those genomes, along with those of modern dogs and wolves, show how dogs have moved around the world with people since their domestication.
    DOGS WERE DOMESTICATED ONCE FROM A LOST POPULATION OF WOLVESKIONA N. SMITHOCTOBER 29, 2020ARS TECHNICA
    In 1959, Belyaev began a project that has greatly informed our best guesses as to what we believe the earliest steps of domestication were.
    FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR DOG (EP. 436)STEPHEN J. DUBNEROCTOBER 22, 2020FREAKONOMICS
    Animal prey and their spirits represented something close to equal partners in the struggle for survival, rather than being part of the kind of dominant-subservient relationship more likely to be associated with animal domestication.
    THE PSYCHIC TOLL OF SEVERING THE HUNTER-PREY RELATIONSHIP - FACTS SO ROMANTICWILLIAM BUCKNEROCTOBER 14, 2020NAUTILUS
    There is a disease to which the Horse, from his state of domestication, is frequently subject.
    AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE VARIOLAE VACCINAEEDWARD JENNER
    This wide diversity is the result of long domestication, under almost every conceivable variety of condition.
    DOMESTIC ANIMALSRICHARD L. ALLEN
    The adaptation of the unicorns proceeded in the following years, but not their domestication.
    SPACE PRISONTOM GODWIN
    This lies partly in its inherited nature and original surroundings, but suggests long domestication.
    THE NEW STONE AGE IN NORTHERN EUROPEJOHN M. TYLER
    He has shown us that even on the steppe the cultivation of cereals precedes the domestication of sheep and cattle.
    THE NEW STONE AGE IN NORTHERN EUROPEJOHN M. TYLER
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