dominatable

comparative more dominatable · superlative most dominatable

1. Capable of being dominated.

   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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   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

   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