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ˈteachableness
[f. teachable + -ness.]
The quality or state of being teachable.
1. Aptness or capacity for being taught; readiness to receive instruction, docility.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxv. 9 This teachablenesse will nowhere bee founde, as long as the mynde [is] lifted up with pryde. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 105 Not only Docible, but Exemplary, for their Teachableness. 1726Swift Gulliver iv. iii, My teachableness, civility, and cleanliness, astonished him. 1863Holland Lett. Joneses xii. 172 The prominent characteristic of all really great men is teachableness. 1897Bp. Creighton in Life & Lett. (1904) II. vii. 255 Humble submission and teachableness to a higher law.
†2. Capacity of teaching; instructiveness. Obs.
1641Milton Animadv. v. Wks. 1851 III. 224 Wherefore wee should not attribute a right Method to the teachableness of Scripture, there can bee no reason given. 1695Tryon Dreams & Vis. iv. 57 There would be much teachableness in Dreams, as they are derived from, and demonstrate [etc.].
3. The quality of being communicable by instruction.
1871Jowett Plato I. 109 Protagoras began by asserting..the teachableness of virtue. |