Synonyms for docility
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dos-uhl; British doh-sahyl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɒs əl; British ˈdoʊ saɪl |
Top 10 synonyms for docility
- abasement
- accordance
- adjustability
- affability
- agreement
- allegiance
- amenability
- amenableness
- appeasement
- application
- aptitude
- ardor
- assent
- backing down
- bashfulness
- belief
- bounce
- bowing
- capacity
- complaisance
- compliance
- compliancy
- concession
- concurrence
- condescension
- conformability
- consideration
- conventionality
- cringing
- defeatism
- delicacy
- demureness
- devoutness
- diffidence
- distaff
- docility
- ductility
- duteousness
- dutifulness
- duty
- effeminateness
- elasticity
- expertise
- extensibility
- extensibleness
- faculty
- faith
- fawning
- fealty
- feminality
- femineity
- feminineness
- fidelity
- flaccidity
- flair
- flexibleness
- forbearing
- forte
- fortitude
- genius
- gift
- give
- giving in
- godliness
- grace
- holiness
- humbleness
- humility
- inferiority complex
- instinct
- kindness
- knack
- lack of pride
- limberness
- litheness
- longanimity
- lowliness
- loyalty
- malleability
- malleableness
- manageability
- meekness
- mildness
- modesty
- mortification
- muliebrity
- nonresistance
- obedience
- obeisance
- obsequiousness
- observance
- orderliness
- orthodoxy
- passion
- passiveness
- passivism
- passivity
- patience
- patientness
- plasticity
- pleasantness
- pliability
- pliabilty
- pliableness
- pliancy
- pliantness
- proficiency
- prostration
- quietness
- recreancy
- religion
- religiosity
- reserve
- resignation
- resignedness
- resilience
- resiliency
- respect
- reverence
- sanctity
- self-abasement
- self-abnegation
- servility
- sheepishness
- shyness
- smarts
- softness
- spring
- springiness
- subjection
- submission
- submissiveness
- submitting
- subservience
- sufferance
- suppleness
- surrender
- tameness
- tensility
- timidity
- timidness
- timorousness
- tractability
- tractableness
- unassertiveness
- unobtrusiveness
- unpretentiousness
- unselfishness
- veneration
- willingness
- womanhood
- womankind
- womanliness
- womenfolk
- yielding
- zeal
Définition of docility
Origin :- 1550s, from French docilité (15c.), from Latin docilitatem (nominative docilitas), from docilis (see docile).
- As in obedience : noun good behavior; submissiveness
- As in piety : noun devotion, religiousness
- As in resignation : noun endurance, passivity
- As in submission : noun compliance
- As in femininity : noun girlishness
- As in meekness : noun submission
- As in sweetness : noun figurative sweetness
- As in aptness : noun talent
- As in malleability : noun flexibility
- As in malleableness : noun flexibility
- As in muliebrity : noun femininity
- As in pliability : noun flexibility
- As in pliableness : noun flexibility
- As in pliancy : noun flexibility
- As in pliantness : noun flexibility
- As in resiliency : noun flexibility
- As in springiness : noun flexibility
- As in submissiveness : noun obedience
- As in suppleness : noun flexibility
- As in tractability : noun obedience
- As in tractableness : noun obedience
- As in compliance : noun agreement
- As in conformity : noun compliance
- As in deference : noun obedience, compliance
- As in flexibility : noun elasticity, adaptability
- As in humility : noun humbleness, modesty
- Nature has provided for this by evolving the instinct of docility.
- Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
- He helped his sister with blind love and docility in her household duties.
- Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
- He had been early trained to gentleness, docility, and goodness.
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
- The team was purely American—that is to say, almost human in its intelligence and docility.
- Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling
- This secret of success was was only to be won by the development of a temper, a spirit of docility.
- Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
- Docility, as I have pointed out elsewhere, is one of the marks of genius.
- Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
- They reap the rewards of the docility and zeal of the masses which they direct.
- Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- And he had been a good soldier as he had been a good son, because of his docility and his strength.
- Extract from : « A Set of Six » by Joseph Conrad
- "I did not tell you to come back," she said, amused at his docility.
- Extract from : « Paul Patoff » by F. Marion Crawford
- My lovely guest was irresistible; I answered her questions with the docility of a child.
- Extract from : « The Lock And Key Library » by Various
Antonyms for docility
- agnosticism
- agreement
- apathy
- arrogance
- assertiveness
- atheism
- bad behavior
- boldness
- confidence
- constraint
- cruelty
- defiance
- denial
- difference
- disagreement
- disbelief
- discord
- disdain
- dishonor
- disloyalty
- disobedience
- disregard
- disrespect
- dissension
- dissent
- egoism
- faithlessness
- fight
- harshness
- ignorance
- impatience
- impiety
- impoliteness
- inability
- incapacity
- incompetence
- inconstancy
- indifference
- inelasticity
- ineptitude
- ineptness
- inflexibility
- intolerance
- irreverence
- lack
- maleness
- masculinity
- meanness
- misbehavior
- mischief
- mutiny
- noncomformity
- noncompliance
- nonconformity
- pretentiousness
- pride
- rebellion
- refusal
- resistance
- roughness
- self-importance
- taking on
- treachery
- veto
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