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TAMENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The attribute of having been domesticated
Synonyms:
domestication; tameness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("tameness" is a kind of...):
flexibility; tractability; tractableness (the trait of being easily persuaded)
Attribute:
tame; tamed (brought from wildness into a domesticated state)
Antonym:
wildness (an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature)
Derivation:
tame (very docile)
tame (brought from wildness into a domesticated state)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated
Synonyms:
jejuneness; jejunity; tameness; vapidity; vapidness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("tameness" is a kind of...):
dullness (the quality of lacking interestingness)
Derivation:
tame (flat and uninspiring)
