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tameness

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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.

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

tama·ble, tamea·ble adj.
tamely adv.
tameness n.
tamer n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.tamenesstameness - the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated
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
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


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The tameness of the birds and lizards is as nothing when compared to the fearless confidence of this insect.
It is a discourse against all those who confound virtue with tameness and smug ease, and who regard as virtuous only that which promotes security and tends to deepen sleep.
It was not for their tameness, but for their impassioned sincerity, that he chose incidents and situations from common life, "related in a selection of language really used by men.
 
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