different between docile vs fembot

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docere (“teach”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d??.sa?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??.s?l/, /?d??.sa?l/

Adjective

docile (comparative more docile, superlative most docile)

1. Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
2. Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.

Synonyms

• (ready to accept instruction): amenable, compliant, teachable
• (yielding to control): compliant, malleable, meek, submissive, tractable, manageable

Antonyms

• (yielding to control): perverse, defiant, rebellious, wilful

Derived terms

• docilely
• docility

Related terms

• docent
• doctor
• doctorate
• doctrinaire
• doctrinal
• doctrine
• document
• indoctrinate

Translations

Anagrams

• cleido-, coiled, coldie

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin docilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.sil/
• Rhymes: -il

Adjective

docile (plural dociles)

1. docile

Derived terms

• docilement

Further reading

• “docile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From Latin docilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.t??i.le/

Adjective

docile (plural docili)

1. compliant, obedient, docile, meek

   Antonym: indocile

Derived terms

• docilità
• docilmente

Further reading

• docile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Adjective

docile

1. nominative neuter singular of docilis
2. accusative neuter singular of docilis
3. vocative neuter singular of docilis

English

Etymology

Blend of female +? bot. Coined by screenwriters Arthur Rowe and Oliver Crawford in the television series The Bionic Woman (1976–1978), specifically in "Kill Oscar" (season 2, episode 5) first broadcast on October 27, 1976.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?mb?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

fembot (plural fembots)

1. (science fiction) A robot in female form.
   • 2003, Jyanni Steffensen, "Doing It Digitally: Rosalind Brodsky and the Art of Virtual Female Subjectivity", Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture, The MIT Press, p. 218, ?ISBN [1]

     The body of Eve 8, the fembot, represents both steely industrial strength and the mysteries of microelectronic circuitry.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fembot.
   1. (specifically) A female sexbot.
2. (derogatory) A docile, unthinking and conformist woman.
   • 1996, Melissa Raphael, Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality, Sheffield Academic Press, p. 61, ?ISBN [2]

     [...] patriarchal socialization works to sap, stunt and tame this energy, leaving successfully adapted women as little more than 'fembots' or 'feminized artifacts' who have become the products and commodities of patriarchal 'necrophilic' sexual fantasy.

   • 2003, Donna Haraway, The Haraway Reader, Routledge, p. 3, ?ISBN [3]

     Too many people, forgetting the discipline of love and rage, have read the "Manifesto" as the ramblings of a blissed-out, technobunny, fembot.

Synonyms

• (robot): gynoid, robotess
• (unthinking woman): Stepford

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