MEANING
Willingness to be taught, guided, or controlled without resistance.
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Words that belong together
- apparent docility
- unusual docility
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Apparent docility made the guards overlook her questions.
The horse's unusual docility unsettled the handler more than resistance would have.
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- docility
Usage notes
Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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