'Subservience' definitions:
Definition of 'subservience'
From: WordNet
noun
The condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan; "all his actions were in subservience to the general plan"
noun
In a subservient state [syn: subservience, subservientness]
noun
Abject or cringing submissiveness [syn: obsequiousness, servility, subservience]
Definition of 'Subservience'
From: GCIDE
- Subservience \Sub*serv"i*ence\, Subserviency \Sub*serv"i*en*cy\, n. The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. [1913 Webster]
- The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. --Bentley. [1913 Webster]
- There is a regular subordination and subserviency among all the parts to beneficial ends. --Cheyne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'subservience'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abjectness,
- agreeability,
- agreeableness,
- back seat,
- baseness,
- biddability,
- compliableness,
- docility,
- ductility,
- facility,
- flexibility,
- helotism,
- helotry,
- humbleness,
- humility,
- inferiority,
- juniority,
- lower status,
- lowliness,
- malleability,
- meanness,
- menialness,
- minority,
- moldability,
- peonage,
- plasticity,
- pliability,
- pliancy,
- satellite status,
- second fiddle,
- second string,
- secondariness,
- serfdom,
- service,
- servility,
- servitorship,
- slavery,
- slavishness,
- subjecthood,
- subjection,
- submissiveness,
- subordinacy,
- subordinate role,
- subordination,
- subserviency,
- third string,
- tractability,
- yieldingness