Definition of Indocility

1. n. The quality or state of being indocile; dullness of intellect; unteachableness; intractableness.

Definition of Indocility

1. Noun. the quality or condition of being indocile ¹

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Definition of Indocility

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Indocility

indivisible by(p)
indivisibleness
indivisibles
indivisibly
indivision
indlamu
indoaniline
indoanilines
indobriton
indochinite
indochinites
indocibility
indocible
indocile
indocilities
indocility (current term)
indoctrinate
indoctrinated
indoctrinates
indoctrinating
indoctrination
indoctrinations
indoctrinator
indoctrinators
indocyanine green
indocybin
indoeuropeanist
indoeuropeanists
indogen
indogenide

Literary usage of Indocility

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on the science of human life by Sylvester Graham (1849)
"... of flesh- meat on the intellectual powers—Opinions of ancient philosophers—Stupidity and indocility of all flesh-eating tribes—Irish children, ..."

2. The Teaching of Morality in the Family and the School by Mrs. Sophie (Willock) Bryant, Sophie Bryant (1897)
"indocility and vigorous originality of will coincide perhaps more often than ... indocility is like a fever that makes itself seen, and obviously demands ..."

3. Stammering and stuttering by James Hunt (1870)
"This he divides into (what he calls) —" Stammering—Inaptitude or indocility of the lips. Stuttering—Ineptitude or occasional ..."

4. The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1904)
"LETTER II TO AN UNDISCIPLINED WRITER Early indocility of great workers — External ... Many of us who were remarkable for pur indocility in boyhood, ..."

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