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- Dictionarysubservience/səbˈsəːvɪəns/
noun
- 1. willingness to obey others unquestioningly: "he demonstrated his complete subservience to his masters"
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Subservience is a noun that means a subservient or subordinate place or function, or obsequious servility. See examples of subservience in sentences, word history, synonyms, and related words.
Subservience is the fact of serving in a subordinate position or role, or a servile or excessively submissive quality or manner. See how to use this word in sentences and learn its origin and history.
Subservient means willing to do what other people want, or considering your wishes as less important than those of other people. Learn more about the meaning, synonyms, antonyms, and usage of subservient with examples from the Cambridge Dictionary.
subservience of something (to something) (formal) the fact of being less important than something else the subservience of drawing to the more traditional finished media (oil on canvas, sculpture, architecture, etc.)
subservient (to something) (formal) less important than something else The needs of individuals were subservient to those of the group as a whole. Every consideration was subservient to the overriding need to cut costs.
noun. /səbˈsɜr vi əns/. IPA: Dictionary definition of subservience. The state or quality of being submissive, obedient, or excessively compliant to someone else's authority or control. "Her subservience to her boss was evident in her willingness to work overtime without complaint." Detailed meaning of subservience.
Subservient means serving or acting in a subordinate capacity, or excessively submissive or obsequious. Learn the origin, usage and synonyms of subservient from Dictionary.com.
