Synonyms for docility
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
The quality of being docile.
Couldn't docility from totalitarian indoctrination be a human shortcoming?
Forms
- Plural
- docilities → tractabilities, compliances, aptitudes, placidities…
Example sentences
- aptitude Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| docility | steady | |
| aptitude | falling | |
| tractability | rising | |
| placidity | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 8 letters
- aptitude3
- 9 letters
- placidity
- 10 letters
- compliance3, docileness
- 12 letters
- tractability
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (aptitude3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- docilité
- Italiano
- docilità
- Deutsch
- Folgsamkeit