Relating vs. Amenable

Relatingnoun

The act of relating, or forming or identifying relationships; relation.

Amenableadjective

Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

Amenableadjective

Willing to comply; easily led.

Amenableadjective

Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.

Amenableadjective

(law) Liable to the legal authority of (something).

‘decisions of the Boards of Appeal are amenable to actions before the Court of Justice of the European Communities’;

Amenableadjective

Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

Amenableadjective

Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband.

Amenableadjective

Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law.

‘Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government.’;

Amenableadjective

Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc.

Amenableadjective

Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable.

‘Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel.’;

Amenableadjective

disposed or willing to comply;

‘someone amenable to persuasion’; ‘the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak’;

Amenableadjective

readily reacting to suggestions and influences;

‘a responsive student’;

Amenableadjective

liable to answer to a higher authority;

‘the president is amenable to the constitutional court’;