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Definition of Tractableness
1. Noun. The trait of being easily persuaded.
Generic synonyms: Trait
Specialized synonyms: Manageability, Manageableness, Docility, Domestication, Tameness, Amenability, Amenableness, Cooperativeness, Obedience
Attributes: Manipulable, Tractable, Intractable
Derivative terms: Flexible, Tractable, Tractable, Tractable, Tractable
Antonyms: Intractability
Definition of Tractableness
1. Noun. The state of being tractable; tractability. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tractableness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tractableness
Literary usage of Tractableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eminent British Statesmen by James Mackintosh, John Forster, John Macdiarmid, Thomas Peregrine Courtenay (1831)
"He entreated Campeggio, who was sought for as the legate, " for his known
tractableness," to hasten to England as he valued his own interest and his ..."
2. Our Animal Friends: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1893)
"... and the colonel, confident in my ultimate tractableness, had booked the bets
recklessly at handsome odds against me. A dozen grooms were after me in the ..."
3. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"... the want of tractableness may spring either from a defect in the temper, or
from self conceit; the want of ductility lies altogether in a natural ..."
4. An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter by Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848)
"Thus for the ringleaders, now view the rabble ; and therein their multitude and
their aptitude : their number, Many : their forwardness, tractableness, ..."
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