docility

English

Etymology

From Middle French docilité, from Latin docilitas.

Noun

docility (usually uncountable, plural docilities)

1. The quality of being docile.

   Couldn't docility from totalitarian indoctrination be a human shortcoming?

Synonyms

• docileness
• lethargic
• placidity

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