dominatable

English

Etymology

dominate +‎ -able

Adjective

dominatable (comparative more dominatable, superlative most dominatable)

1. Capable of being dominated.
   • 1992, Janelle G. Reinelt, Critical Theory and Performance, page 26:

     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.

   • 1994, Giovanna Miceli Jeffries, Feminine Feminists: Cultural Practices in Italy:

     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.

   • 2009, David Cayley, Ideas on the Nature of Science, page 89:

     The modern ontology, since the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment, is an idea of the world as a knowable, controllable, dominatable place.