domestication

Meanings

Plural: domestications

Noun

• adaptation to intimate association with human beings
• the attribute of having been domesticated
• accommodation to domestic life
  • "her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication"
• The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.
• The act of domesticating, or making a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
• The act of domesticating a text.

Synonyms

tameness

Antonyms

wildness