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(n.)
The gradual softening into doing whatever your devices suggest, compliance arriving so slowly you mistake it for choice.
Years of letting the meal service fill his cart produced a culinary docilescence he now barely noticed.
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From the future, or already here?
From Latin docere, to teach; docile originally meant “easily taught” before it slid to its modern meaning of “easily led,” and the suffix - escence, denoting a gradual process or coming-into-being, as in adolescence or convalescence.
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