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DOMESTICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Accommodation to domestic life
Example:
her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("domestication" is a kind of...):
accommodation; adjustment; fitting (making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The attribute of having been domesticated
Synonyms:
domestication; tameness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("domestication" is a kind of...):
flexibility; tractability; tractableness (the trait of being easily persuaded)
Attribute:
tame; tamed (brought from wildness into a domesticated state)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Adaptation to intimate association with human beings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("domestication" is a kind of...):
adaptation; adaption; adjustment (the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions))
