TRACTABLENESS Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

tractableness

noun

Definition of tractableness

as in teachableness

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Noun

Of the 12 submissions received, the board initially favored working with Continental Development and Mar Ventures on a plan that would keep Silverado on the site.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
Individual and team submissions (teams must have each team member submit their own application and indicate their team) are available on the Official Next New Creator site from July 14 at 10 am KST to August 12 at 2 pm KST (August 11 at 10 pm PST).

— Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of submission

Noun

That’s why the theme of violence, both psychological and physical, is central to the novel, precisely because for so long—and unfortunately still today—violence hasn’t been considered sufficient reason to bring an end to the dominion of the male, founded on force and on the subordination of women.

— Nina Mesfin, New Yorker, 7 June 2026
Mounting evidence of rogue AI Evidence of rogue AI does not come as a shock to some of the companies whose chatbots have defied subordination.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026

Definition of subordination

Noun

Treat cybersecurity as an investment in economic competitiveness and national resilience, not simply regulatory compliance.

— Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Faced with a national IT compliance mandate, Sapporo’s city government needed to modernize over one million lines of legacy code, which Kaplan estimated would have normally taken 200 engineering months of work.

— Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 3 July 2026

Definition of compliance

Noun

Other essential qualities include a substantial heft, range, and engagement with the United States’s history, especially the recurrent issues of racial injustice, religious enthusiasm, social conformity, and rampant capitalism.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
In a particularly eerie feat of conformity, every man in the portrait gallery wears a near-identical blue coat, even though portraits from their lifetimes feature them dressed in an assortment of brown, black, gray and other-colored garments.

— Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 3 July 2026

Definition of conformity

Noun

Less money coming into government coffers also means fewer goodies for the population of Moscow, whose acquiescence Putin desperately needs.

— Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 30 June 2026
But the balance of risks has changed Europe’s era of acquiescence is over.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 22 June 2026

Definition of acquiescence

Noun

The story follows two genetically identical women who switch identities and consequently expose a hierarchical world based on genetic selection, exploitation and obedience.

— Roberto Prieto, Variety, 7 July 2026
Its blinding concentration is awed into submission or obedience.

— Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026

Definition of obedience

Noun

Bank in, low block, surrender possession, everyone behind the ball, defend for your lives, play on the counter, hope for a set piece — there’s nothing wrong with any of that.

— Stuart James, New York Times, 5 July 2026
Hingham is the birthplace of Major General Benjamin Lincoln — George Washington’s second-in-command, who famously accepted the British surrender at Yorktown — and home to the direct ancestors of Abraham Lincoln.

— Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 4 July 2026

Definition of surrender

Noun

The breed falls on the higher end of the trainability spectrum, with the AKC describing them as fairly eager to please handlers.

— Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
Smaller than the German shepherd and the Belgian Malinois, the Dutch shepherd is used in police and military work because of its athleticism, trainability and strong work ethic.

— Aditya Simha, The Conversation, 7 May 2026

Definition of trainability

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