Meaning & use
tractability
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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