Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being tame.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being tame.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state or quality of being
tame . - noun countable, rare The result or product of being
tame .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the attribute of having been domesticated
- noun the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word tameness.
Examples
-
O'Driscoll said nothing till we had once more taken our seats in the boat, and then he expressed his disappointment at what he called the tameness of the result of our expedition.
Hurricane Hurry William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
-
The ladies excite the author's pen into absolute rapture; their sparkling eyes and glossy hair, are, in themselves, sufficient to negative the idea of tameness or insipidity, while their sylph-like figures exhibit fresh graces at every step.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various
-
It was somewhat galling to recall the tameness with which she had allowed a Shouting Methodist such a last word as that, entirely unreproved.
V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
-
Pigeons are very abundant in all Russian cities, and their tameness is a matter of remark among foreign visitors.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
-
But it's well worth it to experience the "tameness" of these animals.
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle: Where Animals Don't Run Away 2009
-
The property bred for was "tameness," i.e., a tolerance of, or better a desire for, human contact.
Building a Better Llama, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
-
One of the reasons that this method performs so well is the very "tameness" of the underlying network – the noise is white, also the proportion of noise is constant, about 50% in the erik167 example, yielding very high 0.7 correlations to gridcell temperature.
-
Unlike their wild ancestors, house pets and other domesticated animals share the trait of tameness, meaning they tolerate or even seek out human presence.
Home LiveScience.com. 2009
-
The relative tameness of the recent downturn in stocks is evidence that many investors expect the rally to resume in coming months.
-
Your tameness, gentleness shining in my hands, bringing light, giving light.
I heard you singing in the bedrooms Jerry Ratch 2011
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.