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