docility

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éye-ti

Proto-Italic *dokejō

Proto-Italic *dokeō

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Ancient Greek διδάσκω (didáskō)sl.

Latin doceō

Proto-Indo-European *-elis

Proto-Italic *-elis

Latin -ilis

Latin docilis

Latin -tās

Latin docilitas

Middle French docilité

English docility

From Middle French docilité, from Latin docilitas.

Noun

docility (usually uncountable, plural docilities)

1. The quality of being docile.

   Couldn't docility from totalitarian indoctrination be a human shortcoming?

Synonyms

• docileness
• lethargic
• placidity

Antonyms

• rebelliousness

Derived terms

• undocility

Translations

the quality of being docile

• Catalan: docilitat (ca) f
• French: docilité (fr) f
• Galician: docilidade (gl) f
• German: Gelehrigkeit (de) f
• Italian: docilità (it) f
• Japanese: 従順 (ja) (jūjun)
• Latin: docilitas f
• Occitan: docilitat (oc) f
• Portuguese: docilidade (pt) f
• Romanian: docilitate (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian: docilnost
• Spanish: docilidad (es) f
• Swedish: foglighet (sv) c
• Turkish: uysallık (tr), yumuşak başlılık