TRACTABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tractableness mean? 

• TRACTABLENESS (noun)
  The noun TRACTABLENESS has 1 sense:

1. the trait of being easily persuaded

  Familiarity information: TRACTABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRACTABLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of being easily persuaded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

flexibility; tractability; tractableness

Hypernyms ("tractableness" is a kind of...):

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

Attribute:

manipulable; tractable (easily managed (controlled or taught or molded))

intractable (not tractable; difficult to manage or mold)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tractableness"):

manageability; manageableness (capable of being managed or controlled)

docility (the trait of being agreeably submissive and manageable)

domestication; tameness (the attribute of having been domesticated)

amenability; amenableness; cooperativeness (the trait of being cooperative)

obedience (the trait of being willing to obey)

Derivation:

tractable (responsive to suggestions and influences)

tractable (easily managed (controlled or taught or molded))