amenability
- noun
- /əˌmɛnəˈbɪlɪti/
- Formal
:
disposición
- Her amenability to new ideas made her a great team member during the project.
- amenability to treatment
Examples
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The teacher appreciated the student's amenability to feedback on his assignments.
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Qualitative analyses of client reactions to GSC will identify additional amenability to treatment variables for a more rigorous evaluation of their ability to moderate response to treatment.
Academic text (2002) -
By reviewing recent research, we demonstrate their amenability for experimental testing of key concepts in social evolution and for generating novel insights, including the ultimate reasons for female reproductive suppression, group living, and bidirectional sex change.
Academic text (2013) -
Under our system of government, the very legitimacy of general policymaking performed by unelected administrators depends in no small part upon the openness, accessibility, and amenability of these officials to the needs and ideas of the public from whom their ultimate authority derives, and upon whom their commands must fall.
Blog text (24) -
C.-K. Bae found that among a sample of Korean students, traditionalism, held to be a crucial barrier to satisfactory adjustment of Koreans to American society, followed a U-curve, so that the students returned home as traditional as when they left, having passed through a phase of amenability to American social values.
Academic text (1992) -
A second significant modification to GSC is attention to culturally specific amenability to treatment factors for Hispanic/Latino and African American youths in the ongoing evaluation of the efficacy of GSC.
Academic text (2002) -
His amenability to suggestions helped improve the overall quality of the report.
Synonyms
194
2.8
Readiness to do something without complaining
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6.2
Willingness to accept new ideas or suggestions
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4.6
A willingness to accept new ideas or feedback
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3.6
A willingness to work with other people to reach a common goal
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5.0
A pleasant, friendly quality of someone who often says yes to others
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5.3
Being friendly, kind, and easy to get along with
A willingness to work with others and accept suggestions
Being easy to manage and willing to follow advice
Willingness to follow instructions and accept guidance
Being ready to welcome new people, ideas or situations
Readiness to help other people when asked
Antonyms
How Willing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Amenability comes from amenable, which comes from the old French word amener meaning 'to bring' or 'to lead'. So think of someone who can be 'brought to' an idea or action: that person is open to influence, and amenability is the quality of being willing to cooperate or be influenced.