NOUN | state | subservience | the condition of being something that is useful in reaching / reaching an end or carrying out a plan |
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state | subservience, subservientness | in a subservient state | |
attribute | subservience, obsequiousness, servility | abject or cringing submissiveness |
Sounds | sahbser'viyahns | |
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Rhymes | abeyance ... virulence: 273 rhymes with ahns... |
Meaning | The condition of being something that is useful in reaching / reaching an end or carrying out a plan. | |
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Example | "all his actions were in subservience to the general plan" | |
Broader | condition, status | A state at a particular time |
Verbs | subserve | be helpful or useful |
Meaning | In a subservient state. | |
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Synonym | subservientness | |
Broader | subordinateness, subsidiarity | secondary importance |
Spanish | servilismo, subordinación |
Meaning | abject or cringing submissiveness. | |
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Synonyms | obsequiousness, servility | |
Narrower | sycophancy | fawning obsequiousness |
Broader | submissiveness | The trait of being willing / willing to yield to the will of another person or a superior force etc. |
Spanish | obsequiosidad, rendimiento, servilismo, sometimiento | |
Catalan | servilisme | |
Adjectives | subservient | abjectly submissive |
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