Meaning & use

tractability

noun·Advanced

The quality of being easy to control, manage, or deal with.

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The new intern's tractability made it easy to train her on unfamiliar tasks.

Engineers valued the material's tractability, since it could be shaped without special tools.

A note on using this word

The noun form of 'tractable'; used for both a person's willingness to be guided and a material's ease of handling.

Words with a similar meaning

manageabilitydocility

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Words with an opposite meaning

stubbornness

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