'Servility' definitions:
Definition of 'servility'
(from WordNet)
noun
Abject or cringing submissiveness [syn: obsequiousness, servility, subservience]
Definition of 'Servility'
From: GCIDE
- Servility \Ser*vil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. servilit['e].] The quality or state of being servile; servileness. [1913 Webster]
- To be a queen in bondage is more vile Than is a slave in base servility. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'servility'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abjection,
- abjectness,
- absolutism,
- acquiescence,
- agreeability,
- agreeableness,
- allegiance,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- back seat,
- baseness,
- bend,
- bending the knee,
- biddability,
- bob,
- bond service,
- bondage,
- bow,
- bowing and scraping,
- brown-nosing,
- captivity,
- compliableness,
- compliance,
- conformity,
- control,
- cringing,
- curtsy,
- debt slavery,
- deprivation of freedom,
- dipping the colors,
- disenfranchisement,
- disfranchisement,
- docility,
- domination,
- ductility,
- duteousness,
- dutifulness,
- enslavement,
- enthrallment,
- facility,
- faith,
- fawning,
- fealty,
- feudalism,
- feudality,
- flattery,
- flexibility,
- genuflection,
- helotism,
- helotry,
- homage,
- humbleness,
- humility,
- inclination,
- indentureship,
- inferiority,
- juniority,
- kneeling,
- kowtow,
- lowliness,
- loyalty,
- making a leg,
- malleability,
- meanness,
- minority,
- moldability,
- nod,
- obedience,
- obediency,
- obeisance,
- obsequiousness,
- observance,
- peonage,
- plasticity,
- pliability,
- pliancy,
- presenting arms,
- prostration,
- restraint,
- reverence,
- salaam,
- salutation,
- salute,
- scrape,
- second fiddle,
- second string,
- secondariness,
- serfdom,
- serfhood,
- service,
- servitium,
- servitude,
- slavery,
- slavishness,
- sliminess,
- standing at attention,
- subjection,
- subjugation,
- submission,
- submissiveness,
- subordinacy,
- subordination,
- subservience,
- suit and service,
- suit service,
- sycophancy,
- sycophantism,
- third string,
- thrall,
- thralldom,
- toadying,
- toadyism,
- tractability,
- truckling,
- tyranny,
- unctuousness,
- vassalage,
- vileness,
- villenage,
- wheedling,
- willingness,
- yieldingness,
- yoke