tameness

tame  (tm)

adj. tam·er, tam·est

1. Brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state.

2. Naturally unafraid; not timid: "The sea otter is gentle and relatively tame" (Peter Matthiessen).

3. Submissive; docile; fawning: tame obedience.

4. Insipid; flat: a tame Christmas party.

5. Sluggish; languid; inactive: a tame river.

tr.v. tamed, tam·ing, tames

1. To make tractable; domesticate.

2. To subdue or curb.

3. To tone down; soften.

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[Middle English, from Old English tam; see dem- in Indo-European roots.]

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tama·ble, tamea·ble adj.

tamely adv.

tameness n.

tamer n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	tameness - the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated jejunity, vapidity, vapidness, jejuneness dullness - the quality of lacking interestingness; "the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees"
	2.	tameness - the attribute of having been domesticated domestication tractability, tractableness, flexibility - the trait of being easily persuaded wildness - an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature

Translations

tameness [ˈteɪmnɪs] N

1. [of lion, tiger] → mansedumbre f; [of hedgehog, fox] → docilidad f, mansedumbre f

2. [of person] → sosería f; [of book, film] (= lacking excitement) → sosería f; (= lacking sex, violence) → falta f de atrevimiento

tameness

n

(of animal) → Zahmheit f

(fig, of person, life, adventure etc) → Lahmheit f (inf); (of film, criticism, joke etc also) → Zahmheit f; (of shot) → Lahmheit f, → Zahmheit f