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It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
Jonathan Mayhew

Meaning of "tameness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TAMENESS

tameness  [ˈteɪmnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TAMENESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tameness 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 TAMENESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tameness

Tame animal

A tame animal is an animal which tolerates the presence of humans. Tameness is a degree to which an animal accepts humans. An animal may be naturally tame, as., e.g., in the case of island tameness, or became tame as a result of deliberate taming, a process during which an initial tendency to avoid humans diminished to a varying degree. The tameability of an animal is the level of difficulty of taming an animal. Tameability may vary among individual animals, breeds, or species. Taming should not be confused with domestication. For example feral animals are domestic, but not tamed. Similarly, taming is not the same as animal training, although in some contexts these terms may be used interchangeably. Note that above definition of "taming" coincides with the use of "habituation" in the field of wildlife biology, as in discussions of how habituation makes bears and other large animals more dangerous <e.g., Herrero et al. 2005, Smith et al. 2005, Geist 2011a,b, Stringham 2010, 2011, Rogers & Mansfield 2011>. By contrast, taming implies that the animal tolerates not merely human proximity, but at minimum human touching <e.g., Geist 2011a,b>.

Definition of tameness in the English dictionary

The first definition of tameness in the dictionary is the quality or state of being changed by man from a naturally wild state into a tractable, domesticated, or cultivated condition. Other definition of tameness is the quality or state of not being fearful of human contact. Tameness is also the quality or state of being lacking in spirit or initiative; meekness or submissiveness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TAMENESS


alumnus
əˈlʌmnəs
awesomeness
ˈɔːsəmnəs
extremeness
ɪkˈstriːmnəs
gamesomeness
ˈɡeɪmsəmnəs
handsomeness
ˈhænsəmnəs
infirmness
ɪnˈfɜːmnəs
lightsomeness
ˈlaɪtsəmnəs
lissomeness
ˈlɪsəmnəs
lonesomeness
ˈləʊnsəmnəs
lukewarmness
ˌluːkˈwɔːmnəs
noisomeness
ˈnɔɪsəmnəs
primeness
ˈpraɪmnəs
rhamnus
ˈræmnəs
selfsameness
ˈsɛlfˌseɪmnəs
Somnus
ˈsɒmnəs
sublimeness
səˈblaɪmnəs
toothsomeness
ˈtuːθsəmnəs
Vertumnus
vɜːˈtʌmnəs
warmness
ˈwɔːmnəs
wearisomeness
ˈwɪərɪsəmnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TAMENESS

tambura
Tamburlaine
tame
tameability
tameable
tameableness
tamein
tameless
tamelessness
tamely
tamer
Tamerlane
Tameside
Tamesis
Tamiflu
Tamil
Tamil Eelam
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Tigers
tamin

WORDS THAT END LIKE TAMENESS

adhesiveness
appropriateness
attentiveness
attractiveness
awareness
brand awareness
business
closeness
competitiveness
completeness
cost-effectiveness
cuteness
doneness
effectiveness
hoarseness
likeness
oneness
responsiveness
self-awareness
soreness
uniqueness

Synonyms and antonyms of tameness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tameness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TAMENESS

Find out the translation of tameness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tameness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tameness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

温顺
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

docilidad
570 millions of speakers

English

tameness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tameness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التروض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

послушность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mansidão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tameness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

docilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kemanisan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zahmheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ふがいなさ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tameness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tameness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tameness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tameness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ताठरपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

evcillik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

docilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tameness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

слухняність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tameness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ημερότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tameness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tameness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tamhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tameness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TAMENESS»

The term «tameness» is normally little used and occupies the 120.479 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TAMENESS» OVER TIME

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

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QUOTES WITH «TAMENESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tameness.
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Jonathan Mayhew
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAMENESS»

Discover the use of tameness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tameness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Parrot Tricks: Teaching Parrots with Positive Reinforcement
The following Tameness Scale is proposed by Kevin Murphy in his book, Training Your Parrot (T.F.H. Publications, 1983). Murphy emphasizes that this is a guide and is not intended as a blueprint for increasing tameness. Rather it shows how ...
Tani Robar, Diane Grindol, 2010
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Principles and Applications of Domestic Animal Behavior An ...
Tameness is the extent to which an animal is willing to accept the presence of humans. It is measured on a continuum. Untamed animals are highly motivated to avoid humans and almost never approach them. In contrast, highly tame animals ...
Price, E.O.
3
Island Tameness
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster, 2010
4
Ends of Complexes
Chapter 7, Forward tameness, concerns a tameness property of ends, which is stated in terms of the ability to push neighbourhoods towards infinity. It is proved that for forward tame W the singular chain complex of the end space e(W) is chain ...
Bruce Hughes, Andrew Ranicki, 1996
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Low Dimensional Topology
Starting at the very beginning we gave a detailed exposition of a proof of the Tameness theorem, that was independently proven by Agol [Ag] and Calegari - Gabai [CG]. Theorem 0.1. (Tameness Theorem) If N is a complete hyperbolic ...
Tomasz Mrowka, Peter Steven Ozsváth, 2009
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Animal Domestication and Behavior
The degree of tameness of individual animals to a great extent determines the nature of that interaction. The purpose of this chapter is to review what is known about the concept of tameness and its development in captive animals. Genetic and ...
Edward O. Price, 2002
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Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited
TAMENESS. OF. RABBITS. Darwin holds that in some cases selection alone has modified the instincts and dispositions of domesticated animals, but that in most cases selection and the inheritance of acquired habits have concurred in ...
William Platt Ball
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Representation Type of Commutative Noetherian Rings III: ...
The fingen-tameness of all homomorphic images of Dedekind-like rings is an obvious consequence. A possible slight exception, involving characteristic 2, to our tameness results is stated in Additional Hypothesis 10.2. The complete local  ...
Lee Klingler, Lawrence S. Levy
9
The q-theory of Finite Semigroups: A New Approach
3.7.3 A discussion of tameness In [19,20], a notion called tameness was introduced with respect to inevitability of graphs, or in our terminology: inevitability with respect to the consistency equations of graphs. These notions can easily be ...
John Rhodes, Benjamin Steinberg, 2009
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Representation Theory of Algebras: Seventh International ...
Also there were given tameness proofs for the algebras of that list with the exception of essentially two cases. It was pointed out already in that paper that in order to complete the tameness proofs one essentially had to study two 2-point ...
Raymundo Bautista, Roberto Martínez-Villa, Jos?e Antonio de la Pe?na, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TAMENESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tameness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tameness is in the genes
TAMED GENES Choosing animals for tameness also selects genes that may affect appearance, such as having floppy ears. Genetic analysis of rats and minks ... «Science News, May 15»
2
Justin Bieber escapes Comedy Central's roast just lightly toasted
Roast fans craving blood Monday at the Justin Bieber roast were probably disappointed by the tameness of the jokes. Bieber worked extremely hard over the ... «The State Press, Mar 15»
3
Biology Students Immerse Themselves On Galapagos Trip
Also, the animals living here have “island tameness.” They are not afraid of people, because they do not know them as natural predators. There are laws that ... «The Oracle, Mar 15»
4
Year in review: Genes linked to tameness
LITTLE DIFFERENCES A look at the genes of domesticated animals, such as cats, offers possible insights into why taming has altered animals' appearances. «Science News, Dec 14»
5
Predators and isolation shape the evolution of 'island tameness
While "island tameness" is an old idea, there have been few rigorous studies of the phenomenon. Many aspects remain unclear, including the mechanisms ... «University of Michigan News, Dec 14»
6
Semi-domesticated? House cats not far removed from wild, genome …
... find a signal for human influence on cat evolution, however, in fur color and pattern, as well as a set of genes that are thought to be associated with tameness. «Los Angeles Times, Nov 14»
7
In Flames' latest record lacks proper ignition
... adventure of 1996's “The Jester Race” or the ricocheting thrash chamber of 2006's “Come Clarity,” we are treated to 43 minutes of tameness and vapidity. «University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily, Sep 14»
8
Taming of the bunny rewrote rabbit genome
“Selection during domestication might have focused on tameness and lack of fear,” says Pat Heslop-Harrison of the University of Leicester in the UK. «New Scientist, Aug 14»
9
Domesticated animals
Though tameness was the sole factor by which Mr Belyaev bred his foxes, he had simultaneously and inadvertently selected for the same sorts of traits that ... «The Economist, Aug 14»
10
Domestication syndrome: White patches, baby faces and tameness
"When humans bred these animals for tameness, they may have inadvertently selected those with mild neural crest deficits, resulting in smaller or slow-maturing ... «EurekAlert, Jul 14»

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