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domestication

DEFINITIONS OF: domestication

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n adaptation to intimate association with human beings

Type of:
adaptation, adaption, adjustment
the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)

n accommodation to domestic life

“her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication”
Type of:
accommodation, adjustment, fitting
making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances

n the attribute of having been domesticated

Synonyms:
tameness
Antonyms:
wildness
an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature
Type of:
flexibility, tractability, tractableness
the trait of being easily persuaded
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