TAMENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The attribute of having been domesticated

Synonyms:

domestication; tameness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

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

Attribute:

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

Antonym:

wildness (an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature)

Derivation:

tame (very docile)

tame (brought from wildness into a domesticated state)

Meaning:

The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated

Synonyms:

jejuneness; jejunity; tameness; vapidity; vapidness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

dullness (the quality of lacking interestingness)

Derivation:

tame (flat and uninspiring)