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domestication
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As a noun, domestication means the act of domesticating, or accustoming to home.
Meanings of domestication
6 meaningsnoun
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.
translation studiesThe act of domesticating a text.
Adaptation to intimate association with human beings
The attribute of having been domesticated
Similar: tamenessAccommodation to domestic life
“her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication”
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).