subservience
3
7.2
- noun
- /səbˈsɜːrviəns/
:
subordinación
- And that is why Spielberg's subservience to popular culture caused him to make a better movie than he intended.
- subservience of women
Examples
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This requirement for humans to conform to the needs of software creates a feeling of human subservience to computers.
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The lack of significant critical voices during the crisis in the Gulf and then the Gulf War disclosed the timidity, narrowness, and fundamental subservience of the mainstream media in the United States, especially the television networks.
Academic text (2003) -
His intent is to establish the precedent of U.S. subservience to the U.N.
Blog text (1) -
If they want to maintain the fiction of their subservience to federal law, then they've got to submit to the regular courts.
Fiction book (1992) -
Colette explained to me the way in which I'd exchanged my freedom for emotional subservience.
Academic text (2003) -
Nationalists typically build a way of life around the acceptance of traditions, inherited rules, loyalty, solidarity, authority, and subservience to national ideals.
Academic text (1999) -
Although such compliance does not have to be equated with de jure subservience, it is an indication that the domestic policies of these two countries can be altered by outside forces.
Academic text (1994) -
In a series of essays, he analyzed what he considered to be wrong with American literature and criticism and suggested various solutions; these problems included American subservience to British literature, the provincialism of American literature, and the poor standard of American criticism.
Academic text (1993) -
Bosman identified virtually the same problems in the South African literary context: subservience to British literature, provincially undiscriminating criticism, and a literary context hostile to fostering good local literature.
Academic text (1993) -
In a workplace characterized by subservience, employees often prioritize their bosses' needs over their own.
Synonyms
1
6.0
A willingness to accept someone else's authority and follow them
1
8.7
To be too eager to please and obey others in a weak, fearful way
A habit of obeying others and not speaking up
Accepting another person's authority and doing what they say
Antonyms
608
3.0
Freedom from control by others, for example when a country is free or a person supports themselves
How Submissive
Surface Forms
Morphology
subservience = subservient (transparent) = sub + serv + ience + ence
The noun is derived transparently from the adjective 'subservient' by adding the suffix '-ence', indicating a state or quality.
Etymology
Subservience comes from the Latin parts sub- ('under') and serv- like in serve and servant, which means 'to serve'. So, subservience is being 'under' something and helping it, which is why it can mean being useful or subordinate to a plan.