tractabilityn.
/traktəˈbɪlɪti/ The quality of being tractable; manageableness, docility.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [noun] > tractability
treatableness1526
tractability1531
conformablenessa1533
tractableness1561
docility1603
ductility1654
amenableness1761
amenability1774
ductibility1795
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xxi. sig. Lii Tractabilitie (which is to be shortly persuaded and meued).
1605 A. Warren Poverties Patience in Poore Mans Passions sig. E4 Vaine Perswasion, that deludes Fond Tractability with fallacies.
1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 41 A further proof of their tractability.
1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons I. i. iii. 18 He, wild man,..not yet civilised into the tractabilities of home.
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