TRACTABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tractability mean? 

• TRACTABILITY (noun)
  The noun TRACTABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the trait of being easily persuaded

  Familiarity information: TRACTABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRACTABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of being easily persuaded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

flexibility; tractability; tractableness

Hypernyms ("tractability" is a kind of...):

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

Attribute:

manipulable; tractable (easily managed (controlled or taught or molded))

intractable (not tractable; difficult to manage or mold)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tractability"):

manageability; manageableness (capable of being managed or controlled)

docility (the trait of being agreeably submissive and manageable)

domestication; tameness (the attribute of having been domesticated)

amenability; amenableness; cooperativeness (the trait of being cooperative)

obedience (the trait of being willing to obey)

Antonym:

intractability (the trait of being hard to influence or control)

Derivation:

tractable (responsive to suggestions and influences)

tractable (easily managed (controlled or taught or molded))

 Context examples 

We may, perhaps, succeed in restoring her to them, if she is not obstinate: but I trace lines of force in her face which make me sceptical of her tractability.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In the tractability with which, at my wish, you forsook a study in which you were interested, and adopted another because it interested me; in the untiring assiduity with which you have since persevered in it—in the unflagging energy and unshaken temper with which you have met its difficulties—I acknowledge the complement of the qualities I seek.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)