submissiveness
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- noun
- /səbˈmɪsɪvnəs/
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sumisión
- The Egyptian fellah, or peasant, was said to be particularly prone to submissiveness and fatalism, a disposition that observers used to explain the continued oppression of Egyptians and their supposed aversion to revolt.
- submissiveness/dominance
- trait of submissiveness
- female submissiveness
That doesn't necessarily, you know, imply submissiveness or dominance.
- That doesn't necessarily, you know, imply submissiveness or dominance.
Examples
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In memorable terms, Hastings lambasted the submissiveness inspired by the media.
Blog text (16) -
The dog showed its submissiveness by laying down and exposing its belly to the owner.
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Silence and submissiveness are very charming in women, in you especially, though I'm just now seeing them for the first time.
Fiction book (1999) -
In so doing, they erased entirely Karenga's initial ideas about the submissiveness of women.
Academic text (2001) -
All of this talk about femininity or submissiveness doesn't help to pay the bills.
Blog text (8) -
There was none of the submissiveness or timidity so ingrained, according to our stereotypes, in Eastern women.
Fiction book (2002) -
I don't know how I had earned his sympathy; perhaps it was my submissiveness in bailing water from the boat when he was ferrying me over here.
Fiction book (1991) -
Or is that an Egyptian general who quivered with awe and submissiveness whenever he crossed the threshold of Pharaoh's palace?
Fiction book (2001) -
A morally conservative discourse on sexuality and gender relations has evolved that encourages submissiveness and decency in the sexuality of women and emphasizes the importance of trust and moral integrity in the selection of sexual partners.
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Mothering, for Bernarda, involves enforcing certain traditional beliefs or conventions with regard to gender roles, namely submissiveness or obedience for the female and permissiveness for the male.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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Willing to do what a person in charge asks
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Accepting another person's control by obeying them
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Polite respect that makes you accept someone's wishes or opinions
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Being too willing to obey other people without question
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Being calm and ready to follow instructions from others
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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
How Submissive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
submissiveness = submissive (transparent) = submit + ive + ness
Formed by a standard nominalization of the adjective 'submissive' with the productive suffix '-ness', yielding the quality or state.
Etymology
Submissiveness comes from the Latin parts sub- ('under') and mittere ('to send'), and you can see the same mit root in English words like submit and mission. So it originally meant 'sent under' or 'put below', which explains why submissiveness means being ready to 'give in' or accept another person's authority.