How do you define "servility"?
Source: tatoeba (3994468)
Servility
//sɚˈvɪ.lɪ.ti//
Synonyms for "servility" (125 found)
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Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (38)
Related words (62)
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Noun(2 words)
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1 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
1 entriesTranslations
29 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- раболепие noun (condition of being servile)
- сервилност noun (condition of being servile)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 奴性 noun (condition of being servile)
Czech
2 entries- servilita noun (condition of being servile)
- servilnost noun (condition of being servile)
Finnish
1 entries- nöyryys noun (condition of being servile)
Galician
1 entries- servilismo noun (condition of being servile)
German
3 entries- Servilismus noun (condition of being servile)
- Servilität noun (condition of being servile)
- Speichelleckerei noun (condition of being servile)
Greek
3 entries- ανελευθερία noun (condition of being servile)
- δουλικότητα noun (condition of being servile)
- ραγιαδισμός noun (condition of being servile)
Irish
1 entries- uirísle noun (condition of being servile)
Italian
1 entries- servilismo noun (condition of being servile)
Japanese
3 entries- 卑屈 noun (condition of being servile)
- 奴隷根性 noun (condition of being servile)
- 隷従 noun (condition of being servile)
Latin
1 entries- servīlitās noun (condition of being servile)
Polish
1 entries- serwilizm noun (condition of being servile)
Romanian
2 entries- servilism noun (condition of being servile)
- servilitate noun (condition of being servile)
Russian
1 entries- раболе́пие noun (condition of being servile)
Spanish
1 entries- servilismo noun (condition of being servile)
Swedish
3 entries- kryperi noun (condition of being servile)
- servilitet noun (condition of being servile)
- underdånighet noun (condition of being servile)
Thai
1 entries- ความอ่อนน้อม noun (condition of being servile)
Volapük
1 entries- lusumät noun (condition of being servile)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
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.
Source: tatoeba (9513570)
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.
Source: wiktionary
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