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Antonyms for docility

Grammar : Noun
Spell : dos-uhl; British doh-sahyl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɒs əl; British ˈdoʊ saɪl


Definition of docility

Origin :
  • 1550s, from French docilité (15c.), from Latin docilitatem (nominative docilitas), from docilis (see docile).
  • As in obedience : noun good behavior; submissiveness
  • As in piety : noun devotion, religiousness
  • As in resignation : noun endurance, passivity
  • As in submission : noun compliance
  • As in femininity : noun girlishness
  • As in meekness : noun submission
  • As in sweetness : noun figurative sweetness
  • As in aptness : noun talent
  • As in malleability : noun flexibility
  • As in malleableness : noun flexibility
  • As in muliebrity : noun femininity
  • As in pliability : noun flexibility
  • As in pliableness : noun flexibility
  • As in pliancy : noun flexibility
  • As in pliantness : noun flexibility
  • As in resiliency : noun flexibility
  • As in springiness : noun flexibility
  • As in submissiveness : noun obedience
  • As in suppleness : noun flexibility
  • As in tractability : noun obedience
  • As in tractableness : noun obedience
  • As in compliance : noun agreement
  • As in conformity : noun compliance
  • As in deference : noun obedience, compliance
  • As in flexibility : noun elasticity, adaptability
  • As in humility : noun humbleness, modesty
Example sentences :
  • Nature has provided for this by evolving the instinct of docility.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
  • He helped his sister with blind love and docility in her household duties.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • He had been early trained to gentleness, docility, and goodness.
  • Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
  • The team was purely American—that is to say, almost human in its intelligence and docility.
  • Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling
  • This secret of success was was only to be won by the development of a temper, a spirit of docility.
  • Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
  • Docility, as I have pointed out elsewhere, is one of the marks of genius.
  • Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
  • They reap the rewards of the docility and zeal of the masses which they direct.
  • Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • And he had been a good soldier as he had been a good son, because of his docility and his strength.
  • Extract from : « A Set of Six » by Joseph Conrad
  • "I did not tell you to come back," she said, amused at his docility.
  • Extract from : « Paul Patoff » by F. Marion Crawford
  • My lovely guest was irresistible; I answered her questions with the docility of a child.
  • Extract from : « The Lock And Key Library » by Various

Synonyms for docility

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