domestication
1. adaptation to intimate association with human beings • Hypernyms: adaptation, adaption, adjustment 2. the attribute of having been domesticated • Syn: tameness • Ant: wildness (for: tameness) • Derivationally related forms: tame (for: tameness) • Hypernyms: tractability, tractableness, flexibility • Attrubites: tame, tamed 3. accommodation to domestic life - her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication • Hypernyms: adjustment, accommodation, fitting
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