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Servility

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The condition of being servile.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or state of being servile; servileness.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state or character of being servile.

n. Mean submission; baseness; slavishness; obsequiousness; slavish deference.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. abject or cringing submissiveness

Word Usage

"Kant's calling servility, suicide, et al. “vices” may strike us as unusual, given that these vices are (on the face of it) not qualities or dispositions, but ways of acting."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

submissiveness

Hyponym

sycophancy

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

servileness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

meanness deference subservience indolence complaisance