slavishness

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• The artist's slavishness in following popular techniques stifled his ability to create original pieces.

• The next bit of "slavishness" I expect from the Church is an ...

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• St. Augustine wasn't to blame for the slavishness of his fans.

  Fiction book (1996)

• George Bush's image was largely manufactured to make him appear as the strong man precisely to exploit this slavishness in the Last Man type.

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• His slavishness politically to Israel is matched by his bizarre religious obligations to that plucky little welfare queen.

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• I see some of the "slavishness" discussed as being part of American political life among Catholics with the recent attacks on the Democratic Party (I am a Democrat) and President Obama (I am a supporter).

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• As thoroughly reprehensible as the Right's slavishness to wealth and power is, the fact that it took a financial meltdown for economic justice to even begin to replace welfare reform on the political agenda suggests progressives need to do a bit of navel-gazing.

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• Everything he did, from the bike (the actor couldn't really ride), to the comb, and the magic punch that turned on jukeboxes, was about a person whose coolness factor required a very uncool slavishness to maintaining the image.

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• The teacher criticized the student's slavishness in copying his classmate's work instead of using his own ideas.

Synonyms

S

subservience

vsslavishness

3 8.1

Being too willing to obey other people without question

is broader and also implies lack of independence or original thought

S

servility

vsslavishness

1 8.7

To be too eager to please and obey others in a weak, fearful way

is excessive submissiveness that often includes imitation and lack of originality

O

obsequiousness

vsslavishness

1 9.9

Being too eager to please and obey someone to gain their favor

is more about being overly submissive and lacking independence or originality

S

suppliance

vsslavishness

• Archaic

9.9

Accepting another person's authority and doing what they say

is a broader ongoing lack of independence often including imitation rather than single acts

Antonyms

I

independence

608 3.0

Freedom from control by others, for example when a country is free or a person supports themselves

O

originality

30 4.5

A quality of being new and different in ideas and not copied from others

How Submissive

servility

1 8.7

slavishness

1 8.5

submissiveness

1 6.0

obedience

91 2.6

compliance

171 5.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology