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UK
/tˈeɪmnəs/
]
NOUN
- the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated
- the attribute of having been domesticated
How To Use tameness In A Sentence
- The film's tameness is undoubtedly its downfall.
- He desired, as he said in the note to "Romantic Ballads," not the merely harmonious but the grand, and he condemned the modern muse for "the violent desire to be smooth and tuneful, forgetting that smoothness and tunefulness are nearly synonymous with tameness and unmeaningness. George Borrow The Man and His Books
- A tame animal does not pass that tameness onto its offspring; taming is not a heritable, genetic change, and there is no simple way to discover when a hominid first tamed another species.
- Foxes selected for tameness are friendly, like domestic dogs, while foxes selected for aggression resist human contact.
- In this study spanning 40 years and involving more than 10,000 foxes, researchers re-created the process of domestication by taking undomesticated commercial farm foxes and selectively breeding them solely for tameness over many generations. Sophia Yin: Why It's Risky to Have Wild Animals as Pets
