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Meaning of "docility" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DOCILITY

dɒˈsɪlɪtɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DOCILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Docility is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DOCILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of docility in the English dictionary

The definition of docility in the dictionary is the quality of being docile; submissiveness.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DOCILITY

ability · accessibility · availability · capability · exility · facility · fissility · gracility · imbecility · indocility · liability · nobility · pensility · possibility · prehensility · responsibility · sessility · stability · tensility · utility

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DOCILITY

doch-an-doris · Docherty · dochmiac · dochmiacal · dochmius · docibility · docible · docibleness · docile · docilely · docimastic · docimasy · docimology · dock · dock dues · dock house · dock labourer · dock leaf · dock strike · dock-worker

WORDS THAT END LIKE DOCILITY

accountability · affordability · agility · credibility · disability · durability · eligibility · feasibility · fertility · flexibility · functionality · hostility · humility · inability · inevitability · mobility · probability · reliability · suitability · sustainability · visibility

Synonyms and antonyms of docility in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DOCILITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «docility» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «docility» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DOCILITY

Find out the translation of docility to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of docility from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «docility» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

顺从
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

docilidad
570 millions of speakers
en

English

docility
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

अधीनता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

انقياد
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

покорность
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

docilidade
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

docility
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

docilité
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Kesopanan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Fügsamkeit
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

おとなしさ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

온순
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Docility
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mềm
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

docility
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

नम्रता
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

uysallık
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

docilità
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

uległość
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

покірність
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

docilitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

docility
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

handelbaarheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

foglighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

docility
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of docility

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DOCILITY»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about docility

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOCILITY»

Discover the use of docility in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to docility and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The State of the American Mind: Stupor and Pathetic Docility
African, a slave and property—that was the real American sociology—and that most Americans originated from indentured, bond-servants and slavery is also a fundamental source of the stupor and pathetic docility of Americans. This book also ...
Amechi Okolo, Ph.D.
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The State of the American Mind: Stupor and Pathetic Docility ...
Amechi Okolo, Ph.D. seriously in this country, as these books are bound to do, is a national good and welcomed since race is at the core of everything in America. Professor Giddens and his co-authors of Introduction to Sociology are eminent ...
Amechi Okolo, Ph.D.
3
Extendable Rationality: Understanding Decision Making in ...
Docility is the tendency to depend on suggestions, perceptions, comments, and to gather information from other individuals on the one hand, and to “provide” information on the other.xvii It is this active-passive process that defines what docility ...
Davide Secchi, 2010
4
Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School ...
What is so sad about docility in school is not only that it is so pervasive, but that it is a condition of long standing. John Dewey warned about it. David Riesman and Edgar Friedenberg looked for yeasty, "counter-cyclical" young people in the ...
Theodore R. Sizer, 2004
5
The Nemesis of Docility, a Study of German Character
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes, 2012
6
The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture
My interest is in the tendency of both com- munitarianism and liberalism to contribute to docility, in Foucault's sense, which is, roughly speaking, a condition in which people unreluc- tantly accept being used, and do so because they have been ...
George Kateb, 1992
7
Social Development and Education
See Docility. Dancing, influence of, in social training, 341-343. See Adolescence. Danger, the feeling of, in sociability, 9, 10. See Sociability. Dewey on social training in the school, 262, 263, note. Dickens on the social training of children, 258, ...
Michael Vincent O'Shea, 1909
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Foundation Theology 2006: Faculty Essays for Ministry ...
(18) Pope Benedict often emphasizes that there is positive advantage for those who embrace docility. For instance, when speaking to ecumenical delegates assembled on April 25, 2005, in the Vatican's Clementine Hall, he stated that "the  ...
Joseph Baunoch (Rev. Dr.), multiple, 2006
9
Outlines of psychology: an elementary treatise, with some ...
Docility, definition of, 38; outer expressions of, 32-38, 198 ; forms of, 218, 229- 281. General laws of, 197- 217 ; law of cerebral habit in relation to law of mental association, 198- 208 ; perception as an instance of, 218-228. Assimilation as one ...
Josiah Royce, 1914
10
Treasury...
He might possess or lack a hundred other things ; that which he must show was docility. With the teachable man or woman all things were possible, for docility was the pledge of progress. V Even a rapid survey of the gospel- narratives will ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOCILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term docility is used in the context of the following news items.
1
On Politics And Ethnic Sterotypes
When did African men become so sexually and economically vulnerable? How are myths of danger and docility being currently recombined? «Trinidad Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Penny Dreadful Season 2.10 Recap: A Standing Ovation
The proprietors make him an offer that almost anyone could refuse: in exchange for his docility as a prisoner and a few cartwheels for the ... «WordandFilm.com, Jul 15»
3
Silencing the Conscious: The Representation of the API Body in Ex …
But there hasn't been much conversation around the presence of an Asian woman playing what continues to perpetuate the perceived docility ... «Hyphen Magazine, Jul 15»
4
Nass crisis: Why Buhari won't intervene – Presidency
President Buhari had come under pressure from many quarters for his apparent docility amid the lingering face-off in the National Assembly ... «Gbooza, Jul 15»
5
How North Korea's Marchers for Peace Became Fellow Travelers
... the marchers showed a surprising credulity, docility, and lack of sympathy for the suffering North Korean people. Mairead Maguire, who won ... «Foreign Policy, Jul 15»
6
Amos Yee released: Teenage blogger appeared “traumatised”
What was the sentence meant to deliver: justice for a crime, or just as a way to quash Amos into docility?” Yee's case has been a polarising ... «Yahoo Singapore News, Jul 15»
7
A Voice From the Wilderness
"If indeed Igbinedion made this statement, then he must have taken the passive and docility of our people too far. The statement is involuntarily ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
8
Are Cats Truly Domesticated? Or Are They Really Wild Animals?
Warren, a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis and the senior author of last year's cat genome study, starts with docility. Yes, he says ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
9
Texas Scientist With a Thing for Longhorns
In the wilderness, these animals, which had been bred for docility, were forced to contend with bears, wolves and coyotes. The mothers had to ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
10
Sick and tired: Sri Lankan domestic workers fight back against …
It is subject to the idiosyncratic standards and whims of each household, where varying degrees of docility and acquiesce are encouraged. «Open Democracy, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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