English → Latin
“towardness, towardliness” in Latin
docilitāsdocility; gentlenessfacilitāsease, easiness, facility, readiness; willingness; affability, courteousness; levity, heedlessnessobsequiumcomplaisance, yielding, compliance, obedience; allegiance; deference, obsequiousness, flatteryobsequorto accommodate oneself to the will of another person; comply with, yield to, gratify, oblige, humor, submit; to yield toofficiumduty, service, office; obligation, an obligatory service, visit, or gesture; kindness, favor, courtesy
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
towardness, towardliness
docilitas (teachableness): propensa voluntas (ready disposition): facilitas (readiness): obsequium: obsequentia (a yielding to the wishes and humor of others; the latter, Caes., B.G., 7, 29): officium (kind or complaisant sentiment or action, of him who wishes to show any attention or render any service to anybody): voluntas officiosa (disposition to render a service; Ov., Pont., 3, 2, 17).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for towardness, towardliness?
- The usual Latin words for “towardness, towardliness” are docilitās, facilitās, obsequium; also obsequor, officium. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.