Adaptation to intimate association with human beings.

Roget 184: location, localization; lodgment; deposition, reposition; stowage, package; collocation; packing, lading; establishment, settlement, installation; fixation; insertion etc. 300.    habitat, environment, surroundings (situation) 183; circumjacence etc. 227^†.    anchorage, mooring, encampment.    plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment; colonization, domestication, situation; habitation etc. (abode) 189; cohabitation; a local habitation and a name" [Midsummer Night's Dream]; endenization^†, naturalization.    ... show more

Roget 370: husbandry, taming etc. v.; circuration^†, zoohygiantics^†; domestication, domesticity; manege [Fr.], veterinary art; farriery^†; breeding, pisciculture.    menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden; bear pit; aviary, apiary, alveary^†, beehive; hive; aquarium, fishery; duck pond, fish pond.    phthisozoics etc. (killing) 361^† [Destruction of animals]; euthanasia, sacrifice, humane destruction.    neatherd^†, cowherd, shepherd; grazier, drover, cowkeeper^†; trainer, breeder; apiarian^†, apiarist; bull whacker [U.S.], cowboy, cow puncher [U.S.], farrier; horse leech, horse doctor; vaquero, veterinarian, vet, veterinary surgeon.    cage etc. (prison) 752; hencoop^†, bird cage, cauf^†; range, sheepfold, etc. (inclosure) 232.    ... show more

Dutch: domesticatie
Polish: domestyfikacja, domestykacja, udomowienie

The attribute of having been domesticated.

synonym: tameness.

Dutch: domesticatie

Accommodation to domestic life.