tameness

as inobedience
as ingentleness
as insubmissiveness
as intractability
as intractableness

Synonyms for tameness

noun good behavior; submissiveness

Antonyms for tameness

Word Origin & History

Old English tom, tam "domesticated, docile," from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (cf. Old Norse tamr, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch tam, Old High German zam, German zahm "tame," Gothic tamjan "to tame"), from PIE *deme- "to constrain, to force, to break (horses)" (cf. Sanskrit damayati "tames;" Persian dam "a tame animal;" Greek daman "to tame, subdue," dmetos "tame;" Latin domare "to tame, subdue;" Old Irish damnaim "I tie up, fasten, I tame, subdue"). Possible ulterior connection with PIE *dem- "house, household" (see domestic). Meaning "spiritless, weak, dull" is recorded from c.1600.

Example Sentences for tameness

This tameness is not in keeping with the rest of his character.

I was impressed anew with the tameness of the Concord landscape.

Could anything change the leopard West into the tameness and serenity of the ox?

There is great stiffness and tameness in the matter in many places.

But what struck me most in Joshua's domain was the quantity and the tameness of the game.

The tameness of the bulls is referred to in the proverb “As mild as a Gangeddu.”

Their tameness, like that of the “fowl and the brute,” is shocking to see.

They scoffed at the tameness with which their insolence was endured.

As for Patrick's bird, he bought him for his tameness, and is grown the wildest I ever saw.

But much has been done by art to improve the tameness of nature.

tameness

Synonyms for tameness

Antonyms for tameness

More words related to tameness

gentleness

obedience

submissiveness

tractability

tractableness