| Main Entry: | obedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good behavior; submissiveness |
Synonyms: |
accordance, acquiescence, agreement, compliance, conformability, conformity, deference, docility, duteousness, dutifulness, duty, manageability, meekness, observance, orderliness, quietness, respect, reverence, servility, submission, subservience, tameness, tractability, willingness |
Antonyms: |
bad behavior, disobedience, misbehavior, mischief, mutiny, rebellion |
| Main Entry: | obedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | acquiescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reluctant agreement |
Synonyms: |
acceptance, accession, approval, assent, compliance, concurrence, conformity, consent, giving in, obedience, permission, resignation, submission, submissiveness, yielding |
Antonyms: |
disagreement, insubordination, rebellion |
| Main Entry: | allegiance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loyalty |
Synonyms: |
adherence, ardor, consecration, constancy, dedication, deference, devotion, duty, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, homage, honor, obedience, obligation, piety |
Antonyms: |
disloyalty, enmity, sedition, treachery, treason |
| Main Entry: | compliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
Synonyms: |
acquiescence, amenability, assent, complaisance, concession, concurrence, conformity, consent, deference, docility, obedience, observance, passivity, resignation, submission, submissiveness, tractability, yielding |
Antonyms: |
defiance, denial, disagreement, disobedience, dissension, dissent, fight, nonconformity, refusal, veto |
| Main Entry: | conformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compliance |
Synonyms: |
acquiescence, allegiance, assent, consent, conventionality, docility, obedience, observance, orthodoxy, resignation, submission, willingness |
Antonyms: |
difference, fight, noncomformity, refusal |
| Main Entry: | duty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral obligation |
Synonyms: |
accountability, accountableness, allegiance, amenability, answerability, burden, call of duty, charge, conscience, deference, devoir, faithfulness, good faith, honesty, integrity, liability, loyalty, obedience, pledge, respect, reverence |
Antonyms: |
faithlessness, inconstancy, treachery |
| Main Entry: | humility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humbleness, modesty |
Synonyms: |
abasement, bashfulness, demureness, diffidence, docility, fawning, inferiority complex, lack of pride, lowliness, meekness, mortification, nonresistance, obedience, obsequiousness, passiveness, reserve, resignation, self-abasement, self-abnegation, servility, sheepishness, shyness, subjection, submissiveness, subservience, timidity, timorousness, unobtrusiveness, unpretentiousness |
Antonyms: |
arrogance, assertiveness, egoism, pretentiousness, pride, self-importance |
| Main Entry: | loyalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | faithfulness, dependability |
Synonyms: |
adherence, allegiance, ardor, attachment, bond, conscientiousness, constancy, devotedness, devotion, duty, earnestness, faith, fealty, fidelity, homage, honesty, honor, incorruptibility, integrity, inviolability, obedience, patriotism, probity, reliability, resolution, scrupulousness, sincerity, single-mindedness, singleness, staunchness, steadfastness, subjection, submission, support, tie, troth, trueheartedness, trueness, trustiness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, zeal |
Antonyms: |
disloyalty, undependability, unfaithfulness |
| Main Entry: | observance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attention to, knowledge of something |
Synonyms: |
acknowledgment, acquittal, acquittance, adherence, awareness, carrying out, celebration, cognizance, compliance, discharge, fidelity, fulfillment, heed, heeding, honoring, keeping, mark, mind, note, notice, obedience, observation, performance, regard, remark, satisfaction |
| Notes: | observance refers to the following of a custom, duty, or law; observation refers to the act of noticing or recording |
Antonyms: |
carelessness, heedlessness, neglect, thoughtlessness |
