subservience

Main Entry:
dependence/dependency
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: addiction, need
Synonyms: attachment, contingency, habit, helplessness, hook, inability, security blanket, servility, subjection, subordination, subservience, vulnerability, weakness, yoke
Antonyms: independence, subtraction, want
Main Entry: obedience
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: good behavior; submissiveness
Synonyms: accordance, acquiescence, agreement, compliance, conformability, conformity, deference, docility, duteousness, dutifulness, duty, manageability, meekness, observance, orderliness, quietness, respect, reverence, servility, submission, subservience, tameness, tractability, willingness
Antonyms: bad behavior, disobedience, misbehavior, mischief, mutiny, rebellion
Main Entry: subordination
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: subjection
Synonyms: servitude, submission, subservience
Main Entry: submissiveness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: obedience
Synonyms: accordance, acquiescence, agreement, amenability, amenableness, compliance, compliancy, conformability, conformity, deference, docility, duteousness, dutifulness, duty, manageability, meekness, observance, orderliness, quietness, respect, reverence, servility, submission, subservience, tameness, tractability, tractableness, willingness
Main Entry: tractability
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: obedience
Synonyms: accordance, acquiescence, agreement, amenability, amenableness, compliance, compliancy, conformability, conformity, deference, docility, duteousness, dutifulness, duty, manageability, meekness, observance, orderliness, quietness, respect, reverence, servility, submission, submissiveness, subservience, tameness, tractableness, willingness
Main Entry: tractableness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: obedience
Synonyms: accordance, acquiescence, agreement, amenability, amenableness, compliance, compliancy, conformability, conformity, deference, docility, duteousness, dutifulness, duty, manageability, meekness, observance, orderliness, quietness, respect, reverence, servility, submission, submissiveness, subservience, tameness, tractability, willingness
Related Words
Main Entry: obedience
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
at one's beck and call, at one's call, at one's commands, at one's orders, compliant, complying, devoted, faithful, henpecked, loyal, morigerous, obedient, passive, pliant, resigned, restrainable, ruly, submissive, under beck and call, under control, unresisted
Main Entry: subordination
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
deficient, diminished, inferior, least, less, lesser, lower, lowest, minor, minus, not fit to hold a candle to, noteless, reduced, second, secondary, smaller, smallest, sub, subaltern, sublunary, subordinate, thrown into the shade, unimportant, weighed in the balance and found wanting
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Humility.
Category: 4. Extrinsic Affections
Synonyms:
-nouns
humility, humbleness; meekness, lowness; lowliness, lowlihood; abasement, self-abasement; submission; resignation., condescension; affability (courtesy)., modesty; verecundity, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of shame,sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down.
-verbs
be humble; deign, vouchsafe, condescend; humble oneself, demean oneself; stoop, stoopto conquer; carry coals; submit; submit with a good grace (brook); yield the palm., lower one's tone, lower one's note; sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down; hide one's face, hide one's diminished head; not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs., blush for, blush up to the eves; redden, change color; color up; hang one's head, look foolish, feel small., render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade [more]; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear., get a setdown.
-adjectives
humble, lowly, meek; modest; humble minded, sober-minded; unoffended; submissive; servile, [more]., condescending; affable (courteous)., humbled; bowed down, resigned; abashed, ashamed, dashed; out of countenance; down in the mouth; down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers; humbled in the dust, browbeaten; chapfallen, crestfallen; dumfoundered. flabbergasted., shorn of one's glory (disrepute) [more].
-adverbs
with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee; on all fours, on one's feet., under correction, with due deference.
-phrases
I am your obedient servant, I am your very humble servant; my service to you; da locum melioribus [Terence]; parvum parva decent [Horace].
Antonyms: pride
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