| Main Entry: | dependence/dependency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addiction, need |
Synonyms: |
attachment, contingency, habit, helplessness, hook, inability, security blanket, servility, subjection, subordination, subservience, vulnerability, weakness, yoke |
Antonyms: |
independence, subtraction, want |
| Main Entry: | humility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humbleness, modesty |
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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 |
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arrogance, assertiveness, egoism, pretentiousness, pride, self-importance |
| 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 |
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bad behavior, disobedience, misbehavior, mischief, mutiny, rebellion |
| Main Entry: | subordination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | subjection |
Synonyms: |
servitude, submission, subservience |
| Main Entry: | submissiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obedience |
Synonyms: |
accordance, acquiescence, agreement, amenability, amenableness, compliance, compliancy, conformability, conformity, deference, docility, duteousness, dutifulness, duty, manageability, meekness, observance, orderliness, quietness, respect, reverence, servility, submission, subservience, tameness, tractability, tractableness, willingness |
| Main Entry: | tractability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obedience |
Synonyms: |
accordance, acquiescence, agreement, amenability, amenableness, compliance, compliancy, conformability, conformity, deference, docility, duteousness, dutifulness, duty, manageability, meekness, observance, orderliness, quietness, respect, reverence, servility, submission, submissiveness, subservience, tameness, tractableness, willingness |
| Main Entry: | tractableness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obedience |
Synonyms: |
accordance, acquiescence, agreement, amenability, amenableness, compliance, compliancy, conformability, conformity, deference, docility, duteousness, dutifulness, duty, manageability, meekness, observance, orderliness, quietness, respect, reverence, servility, submission, submissiveness, subservience, tameness, tractability, willingness |
| Main Entry: | obedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | subordination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Humility. |
| Category: | 4. Extrinsic Affections |
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-nouns
humility, humbleness; meekness, lowness; lowliness, lowlihood; abasement, self-abasement; submission; resignation., condescension; affability (courtesy)., modesty; verecundity, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of shame,sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down.
-verbs
be humble; deign, vouchsafe, condescend; humble oneself, demean oneself; stoop, stoopto conquer; carry coals; submit; submit with a good grace (brook); yield the palm., lower one's tone, lower one's note; sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down; hide one's face, hide one's diminished head; not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs., blush for, blush up to the eves; redden, change color; color up; hang one's head, look foolish, feel small., render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade [more]; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear., get a setdown.
-adjectives
humble, lowly, meek; modest; humble minded, sober-minded; unoffended; submissive; servile, [more]., condescending; affable (courteous)., humbled; bowed down, resigned; abashed, ashamed, dashed; out of countenance; down in the mouth; down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers; humbled in the dust, browbeaten; chapfallen, crestfallen; dumfoundered. flabbergasted., shorn of one's glory (disrepute) [more].
-adverbs
with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee; on all fours, on one's feet., under correction, with due deference.
-phrases
I am your obedient servant, I am your very humble servant; my service to you; da locum melioribus [Terence]; parvum parva decent [Horace].
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pride |
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