teachable
adjective
capable of being instructed, as a person; docile.
teachableness
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a word derived from
teachable.
Example Sentences
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In the last three of these, the perfect man should put away childish things; in the first point, or teachableness, while he retained it in principle, he should modify it in its application.
From The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps by Thomas Arnold
About the most hopeful element in any human being's character I should reckon to be teachableness.
From More Toasts by Marion Dix Mosher
And yet, I am bound to say, that, in general, the teachableness of youth is, after all, much greater than we might at first sight fancy.
From The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps by Thomas Arnold
You are really too good a business man to go to the wall for the want of a little teachableness.
From Analyzing Character by Katherine M. H. Blackford
To hear some men talk, we should think that no boy could do so without losing all humility and all teachableness; without forthwith supposing that he was able to be his own instructor.
From The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps by Thomas Arnold
