calmability
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Calmability, capacity for pacification by the mother’s devices, is part of the baby’s capacity to evoke care from a care-giver by actively contributing to the care-giver’s emotional state—making mother feel good, competent, and fulfilled, as opposed to feeling rejected by her own baby, incompetent, and helpless to give the baby the care he demands and needs (42)."
- "In some cases you would shelter in place and in some cases you would evacuate. And if you think that through ahead of time and talk with your family about it, practice it in your schools, workplaces, et cetera, there's going to be a lot more calmability to tune in, get the instructions and follow them."
- "It is well-known—from personal experience by shelter workers and more recently by scientific studies—that the behavior of an animal plays a prominent role in that animal’s chances of being adopted. Favored traits include friendliness, spending more time at the front of the enclosure, calmability, controllability, and trainability (McCobb et al., 2005)."