" biddability "

1: a readiness or willingness to yield to the wishes of others;

  * e.g., " ... a pastor who longs for the days when the biddability of parishioners could be taken for granted "

•  Synonyms : 

•  acquiescence,

•  compliance,

•  compliancy,

•  deference,

•  docility,

•  obedience,

•  submissiveness

•  Antonyms : 

•  defiance,

•  disobedience,

•  intractability,

•  recalcitrance

1: readily giving in to the command or authority of another;

  * e.g., " ... the elderly widower was one of the more biddable and cooperative residents at the nursing home "

•  Synonyms : 

•  amenable,

•  compliant,

•  conformable,

•  docile,

•  law-abiding,

•  obedient,

•  submissive,

•  tractable

•  Antonyms : 

•  balky,

•  contrary,

•  contumacious,

•  defiant,

•  disobedient,

•  froward,

•  incompliant,

•  insubordinate,

•  intractable,

•  noncompliant,

•  obstreperous,

•  rebel,

•  rebellious,

•  recalcitrant,

•  refractory,

•  restive,

•  unamenable,

•  ungovernable,

•  unruly,

•  untoward,

•  wayward,

•  willful