DOMESTICATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Accommodation to domestic life

Example:

her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

accommodation; adjustment; fitting (making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances)

Meaning:

The attribute of having been domesticated

Synonyms:

domestication; tameness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

flexibility; tractability; tractableness (the trait of being easily persuaded)

Attribute:

tame; tamed (brought from wildness into a domesticated state)

Meaning:

Adaptation to intimate association with human beings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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

adaptation; adaption; adjustment (the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions))