tractableness
Yielding to guidance
The quality of being easily managed, controlled, or persuaded.
Tractableness implies a cooperative disposition—someone or something tractable yields to guidance without resistance.
The word applies to people, animals, or problems: The tractableness of the new puppy made training a pleasure.
More common as tractability.
Compliance with authority
- submissivenessDisposition to obey others
- docilityReadiness to submit
- meeknessGentle, unassertive disposition
- acquiescenceUnresisting acceptance
deference · conformity · pliability · amenability · biddability · yielding · passivity · subordination
Capacity for external regulation
- workabilityEase of handling material
- handleabilityEase of manipulation
- governabilityAbility to be ruled
- operabilityCapacity to be used
practicality · accessibility · simplicity · convenience · handiness · feasibility · maintainability · navigability
Ability to adapt easily
- malleabilityCapacity for deformation without breaking
- pliancyCapacity to flex
- moldabilityCapacity to be shaped
- adjustabilityCapacity for alteration
modifiability · plasticity · suppleness · versatility · elasticity · ductility · alterability · formability
Openness to act
- collaborationJoint intellectual work
- amenabilityReadiness to yield
- receptivenessWillingness to accept ideas
- opennessQuality of being accessible
agreeableness · helpfulness · responsiveness · participation · engagement · readiness · approachability · accessibility
obedience
Compliance with authority
- submissivenessDisposition to obey others
- docilityReadiness to submit
- meeknessGentle, unassertive disposition
acquiescence · deference · conformity · pliability · amenability · biddability · yielding · passivity · subordination · tameness
controllability
Capacity for external regulation
- workabilityEase of handling material
- handleabilityEase of manipulation
- governabilityAbility to be ruled
operability · practicality · accessibility · simplicity · convenience · handiness · feasibility · maintainability · navigability · serviceability
flexibility
Ability to adapt easily
- malleabilityCapacity for deformation without breaking
- pliancyCapacity to flex
- moldabilityCapacity to be shaped
adjustability · modifiability · plasticity · suppleness · versatility · elasticity · ductility · alterability · formability · responsiveness
willingness
Openness to act
- collaborationJoint intellectual work
- amenabilityReadiness to yield
- receptivenessWillingness to accept ideas
openness · agreeableness · helpfulness · responsiveness · participation · engagement · readiness · approachability · accessibility · obligingness
tractablenessintractableness
Resistance to being controlled
intractability · unmanageability · recalcitrance · stubbornness · obstinacy
tractablenessdefiance
Open resistance to authority
rebelliousness · insubordination · disobedience · noncompliance · resistance
contract, attract, tractor, tract, subtract, retract, subtraction, abstract, extraction