All docility synonyms

noun docility

• amenability — ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable: an amenable servant.
• concession — If you make a concession to someone, you agree to let them do or have something, especially in order to end an argument or conflict.
• non-submissive — inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants.
• resignation — the act of resigning.
• passivity — Also, passiveness [pas-iv-nis] /ˈpæs ɪv nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being passive.
• willingness — disposed or consenting; inclined: willing to go along.
• allegiance — Your allegiance is your support for and loyalty to a particular group, person, or belief.
• orthodoxy — orthodox belief or practice.
• conventionality — the quality or characteristic of being conventional, esp in behaviour, thinking, etc
• obeisance — a movement of the body expressing deep respect or deferential courtesy, as before a superior; a bow, curtsy, or other similar gesture.
• condescension — Condescension is condescending behaviour.
• capitulation — the act of capitulating
• pliability — easily bent; flexible; supple: pliable leather.
• plasticity — the quality or state of being plastic.
• give — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• affability — pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite: an affable and courteous gentleman.
• pliancy — bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable: She manipulated the pliant clay.
• suppleness — bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed; pliant; flexible: a supple bough.
• springiness — characterized by spring or elasticity; flexible; resilient: He walks with a springy step.
• compliance — a disposition to yield to or comply with others
• flaccidity — soft and limp; not firm; flabby: flaccid biceps.
• lithe — bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
• demureness — characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
• mortification — a feeling of humiliation or shame, as through some injury to one's pride or self-respect.
• diffidence — the quality or state of being diffident.
• servility — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
• lowliness — humble in station, condition, or nature: a lowly cottage.
• bashful — Someone who is bashful is shy and easily embarrassed.
• passiveness — Also, passiveness [pas-iv-nis] /ˈpæs ɪv nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being passive.
• timidity — lacking in self-assurance, courage, or bravery; easily alarmed; timorous; shy.
• meekness — humbly patient or docile, as under provocation from others.
• unpretentious — not pretentious; modest; without ostentatious display; plain: his unpretentious demeanor; an unpretentious summer resort.
• abasement — to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade.
• reserve — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
• subjection — the act of subjecting.
• self-abasement — humiliation of oneself, especially as a result of guilt, shame, or the like.
• sheepish — embarrassed or bashful, as by having done something wrong or foolish.
• nonresistance — the policy or practice of not resisting violence or established authority, even when tyrannical, by force.
• obsequiousness — characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
• self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
• subservience — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
• unobtrusiveness — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
• timorous — full of fear; fearful: The noise made them timorous.
• duty — something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
• accordance — conformity; agreement; accord (esp in the phrase in accordance with)
• quietness — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
• agreement — An agreement is a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people.
• respect — a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in): to differ in some respect.
• manageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
• tameness — changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.