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dominatable en · ADJ

Etymology

From dominate + -able.

Meanings

1. Capable of being dominated.
   • By transposing Gianni Vattimo's philosophical concept of "transparency" onto the Italian Futurist movement, the author detects the Futurists' attempts to construct a "transparent woman," one who would be totally penetrable and dominatable. 1994, Giovanna Miceli Jeffries, Feminine Feminists: Cultural Practices in Italy:
   • Most important, as South Asian historian Ronald Inden relates, for empiricists and rationalists that role was "the unchangeable" and /or "the absolutely different" (and therefore inscrutable and dominatable), and, for romantics, the "spiritual or ideal" Other. 1992, Janelle G. Reinelt, Critical Theory and Performance, page 26:
   • The modern ontology, since the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment, is an idea of the world as a knowable, controllable, dominatable place. 2009, David Cayley, Ideas on the Nature of Science, page 89:

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