Docile vs Obedience - What's the difference?
docile | obedience |
Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
Ready to accept instruction or direction.
The quality of being obedient.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
As an adjective docile
is yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.As a noun obedience is
the quality of being obedient.docile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (yielding to control): compliant, malleable, meek, submissive, tractable * (ready to accept instruction): amenable, compliant, teachableAntonyms
* (yielding to control): rebellious, wilfulDerived terms
* docilely * docilityAnagrams
* * ----obedience
English
(wikipedia obedience)Alternative forms
* , (l) (qualifier)Noun
(-)- Obedience is essential in any army.
- Cautioning Nobs to silence, and he had learned many lessons in the value of obedience since we had entered Caspak, I slunk forward, taking advantage of whatever cover I could find...