Associations to the word «Domestication»

Wiktionary

DOMESTICATION, noun. The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.
DOMESTICATION, noun. 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.

Dictionary definition

DOMESTICATION, noun. Adaptation to intimate association with human beings.
DOMESTICATION, noun. The attribute of having been domesticated.
DOMESTICATION, noun. Accommodation to domestic life; "her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats