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
And conversely the prolonging of the plastic period of infancy, entailing a vast increase in teachableness and versatility, has contributed to the further enlargement of the cerebral surface.
From The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin by John Fiske
Perhaps they realise that the Roman has learnt with an admirable patience and teachableness the new lessons that have been put before him.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
About the most hopeful element in any human being's character I should reckon to be teachableness.
From More Toasts by Marion Dix Mosher
Now, teachableness as an instinct, if I may call it so, diminishes naturally with the consciousness of growing strength.
From The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps by Thomas Arnold
