tractability.

Readiness to respond to guidance or the ease with which something can be handled or managed.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• a child’s tractability
• tractability under instruction
• the tractability of a problem

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The tutor praised his tractability without noticing how little he had actually understood.

Her apparent tractability vanished whenever the instructions involved betraying a friend.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.