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amenability

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a·me·na·ble  (-mn-bl, -mn-)
adj.
1. Responsive to advice, authority, or suggestion; willing.
2. Responsible to higher authority; accountable: amenable to the law. See Synonyms at responsible.
3. Susceptible or open, as to testing or criticism: "The phenomenon of mind . . . is much more complex, though also more amenable to scientific investigation, than anyone suspected" (Michael D. Lemonick).

[Probably alteration of Middle English menable, from Old French, from mener, to lead, from Latin minre, to drive, from minr, to threaten, from minae, threats; see men-2 in Indo-European roots.]

a·mena·bili·ty, a·mena·ble·ness n.
a·mena·bly adv.
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Noun1.amenability - the trait of being cooperativeamenability - the trait of being cooperative      
tractability, tractableness, flexibility - the trait of being easily persuaded
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amenability
n (= responsiveness: of people) → Zugänglichkeit f; the amenability of these data to the theorydie Möglichkeit, diese Daten in die Theorie einzuordnen


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