tameness
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- noun
- /ˈteɪmnəs/
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mansedumbre
- The absence of the monk and the relative tameness of this reply may reflect the more austere character of Spanish literature, but that is not necessarily the case with the oral tradition of Spain.
Examples
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One experiment conducted in Russia in the 1960s and 1970s supports Coppinger's ideas about a link between morphological and behavioral changes. D. K. Belyaev deliberately bred silver foxes, a subspecies of the red fox, for tameness.
Academic text (1997) -
The tameness of the dog allowed it to live peacefully with young children.
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She showed the tameness of a caged animal.
Fiction book (1991) -
In the sixth generation bred for tameness, we had to add an even higher-scoring category.
Blog text (9) -
She relied on converts, used to more structure and hierarchy, more tameness, to tell her this was unique.
Fiction book (2002) -
I ran into him more than once when he was going to work: his hair wet and combed in a rush, with an air of tameness or self-absorption noticeable in the way he wore his tie or held the dark briefcase with exams.
Fiction book (1993) -
Farmers often appreciate the tameness of animals that have been domesticated over generations.
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Comparing wild and domesticated birds, one can observe a significant difference in their tameness.
Antonyms
How Tame
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tameness comes from the simple word tame plus the ending -ness, and tame originally described an animal 'not wild' or 'trained', so tameness is the quality of being domesticated or calm.