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docility
noun as in aptness
noun as in compliance
noun as in conformity
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noun as in deference
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noun as in femininity
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noun as in flexibility
noun as in humility
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noun as in malleability
noun as in malleableness
noun as in muliebrity
noun as in obedience
noun as in piety
noun as in pliability
noun as in pliableness
noun as in pliancy
noun as in pliantness
noun as in resignation
noun as in resiliency
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noun as in springiness
noun as in submission
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noun as in submissiveness
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noun as in suppleness
noun as in sweetness
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noun as in tractability
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noun as in tractableness
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Example Sentences
In studies of humans and mice, those genes influence endurance, weight-bearing ability and docility.
When the principal threatens to get Child Services involved with Robin’s case, Theo is willing to try anything to keep from medicating his son into an appropriate state of docility.
Drugs keep the docile human population in “Chemical Serenity,” glued to “pain and sex” shows on television.
Only then, the idea goes, were canines docile enough for people to train as helpers.
He wanted purity, docility, absolute devotion to her husband—and plump white arms.
In every important political step, de Brus followed with docility his father's lead.
If properly managed, cattle may be trained with all the docility, intelligence, and much of the activity of the horse.
And with the same childlike docility she repaired to her chamber, and betook herself to slumber.
These truculent ruffians (when they have thoroughly earned a thrashing) will often accept it with most edifying docility.
She would play for time; she must pretend docility and meet quiet guile with guile.
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On this page you'll find 690 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to docility, such as: aptitude, capacity, expertise, faculty, flair, and forte.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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