tameness

Definitions of tameness
  1. noun
    the attribute of having been domesticated
    synonyms: domestication
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    antonyms:
    wildness
    an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature
    type of:
    flexibility, tractability, tractableness
    the trait of being easily persuaded
  2. noun
    the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated
    synonyms: jejuneness, jejunity, vapidity, vapidness
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    type of:
    banality, dullness
    the quality of lacking interestingness
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