Servility

n.

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The quality or state of being servile; servileness. To be a queen in bondage is more vile Than is a slave in base servility. - Shak.

Noun

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servility - abject or cringing submissiveness Synonyms: obsequiousness, subservience

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