amenability

Amenability — A*me na*bil i*ty, n. The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

amenability — I noun accessibleness, accommodativeness, acquiescence, adaptability, agreeableness, compliance, compliancy, conformability, docility, ductility, flexibility, flexibleness, inclination, influenceability, malleability, manageability, mansuetude,… …   Law dictionary

amenability — (n.) 1761; see AMENABLE (Cf. amenable) + ITY (Cf. ity) …   Etymology dictionary

amenability — amenable ► ADJECTIVE 1) willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions. 2) (amenable to) capable of being acted on. DERIVATIVES amenability noun amenably adverb. ORIGIN from Old French amener bring to , from Latin minari threaten …   English terms dictionary

amenability — noun see amenable …   New Collegiate Dictionary

amenability — See amenable. * * * …   Universalium

amenability — noun The state or quality of being amenable …   Wiktionary

amenability — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of willingly carrying out the wishes of others: acquiescence, amenableness, compliance, compliancy, deference, obedience, submission, submissiveness, tractability, tractableness. See RESIST …   English dictionary for students

amenability — n. good will; tendency to agree, agreeableness …   English contemporary dictionary

amenability — n. Accountability, liability, responsibility, answerableness, amenableness …   New dictionary of synonyms

amenability — n 1. agreeableness, agreeability, reasonableness; compliancy, pliancy, flexibility, conformability, adaptability; yieldingness, acquiescence, sub missiveness, deference, obedience; docility, manageability, manageableness, governability,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder