calmability

Noun

calmability (uncountable)

1. (rare) The quality of being calmable.
   • Calmability, capacity for pacification by the mother’s devices, is part of the baby’s capacity to evoke care from a care-giver by actively contributing to the care-giver’s emotional state—making mother feel good, competent, and fulfilled, as opposed to feeling rejected by her own baby, incompetent...1981, Ronald Levy, “Mother-Infant Relations in the Feeding Situation”, in Emanuel Lebenthal, editor, Textbook of Gastroenterology and Nutrition in Infancy, volumes 1 (Gastrointestinal Development and...
   • In some cases you would shelter in place and in some cases you would evacuate. And if you think that through ahead of time and talk with your family about it, practice it in your schools, workplaces, et cetera, there's going to be a lot more calmability to tune in, get the instructions and follow...2004 September 22, Patricia McGinnis, quotee, “U.S. Representative John Shadegg (R-AZ) Holds Hearing on Emergency Warning Systems”, in Political Transcript Wire, Lanham, Md., →OCLC