Servility

//sɚˈvɪ.lɪ.ti// noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being servile. countable, uncountable

    "Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis."

  2. 2
    abject or cringing submissiveness wordnet

Synonyms

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obsequiousnessabjectionabjectnessabsolutismacquiescenceagreeability

Example

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"The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility."

Etymology

From servile + -ity.

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