Hypertext Webster Gateway: "domestication"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Domestication \Do*mes`ti*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. domestication.]
The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action
of taming wild animals.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
domestication
n 1: adaptation to intimate association with human beings
2: the attribute of having been domesticated [syn: {tameness}]
[ant: {wildness}]
3: accommodation to domestic life; "her explorer husband
resisted all her attempts at domestication"
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