amenableness

Ready to cooperate

Amenableness is the quality of being open to suggestion, willing to cooperate, or responsive to guidance.

Someone with amenableness accepts direction without resistance: Her amenableness made her easy to work with.

The word is formal and rarely used; amenability is the more common noun form.

compliance

obedience

Compliance with authority

submissiveness · tractability · biddability · meekness · dutifulness · manageability · yielding · conformity · complaisance · passivity

adaptability

flexibility

Ability to adapt easily

modifiability · plasticity · openness · receptivity · responsiveness · susceptibility · impressionability · persuadability · teachability · coachability

agreeableness

affability

Warm, friendly disposition

pleasantness · amiability · good-naturedness · friendliness · approachability · likeability · easygoingness · graciousness · warmth · sociability

cooperativeness

collaboration

Joint intellectual work

teamwork · partnership · assistance · accommodation · participation · engagement · constructiveness · good-faith · conciliation · readiness

Opposites
willingness to cooperate or comply

amenablenessstubbornness

Refusal to yield

obstinacy · recalcitrance · uncooperativeness · defiance · contrariness

receptivity to persuasion or reason

amenablenessinflexibility

Quality of being unbending

closed-mindedness · unyieldingness · implacability · rigidity · unreasonableness

Family

amenable, amenability, amenably

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