Obedience - English meaning

Obedience – definitions in English dictionary

noun
Compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another's authority.
Usage examples:
Children were taught to show their parents obedience
Synonims:
Compliance Acquiescence Tractability Tractableness Amenability Dutifulness Deference Duty Respect Respectfulness Observance of the law/rules Discipline Biddableness Duteousness Malleability P

noun
The fact that people or animals do what they are told to do
Usage examples:
He demands unquestioning obedience from his soldiers.

Obedience translation into English

Obedience: translate from English into Chinese

服从, 顺从, 百依百顺, 顺, 忠实

Obedience: translate from English into Dutch

Gehoorzaamheid, Kerkelijk gezag of gebied

Obedience: translate from English into French

Obéissance, Obédience, Soumission

Obedience: translate from English into German

Gehorsam, Folgsamkeit, Fügsamkeit, Gefügigkeit

Obedience: translate from English into Hindi

आज्ञाकारिता, आज्ञापालन, अनुपालन, विनयशीलता

Obedience: translate from English into Italian

Obbedienza, Ubbidienza, Sottomissione

Obedience: translate from English into Korean

복종

Obedience: translate from English into Russian

Послушание, Повиновение, Подчинение, Покорность

Obedience: translate from English into Spanish

Obediencia, Sumisión, Docilidad

Word origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin oboedientia, from the verb oboedire (see obey).

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Obedience – similar words

obedient

adjective
Complying or willing to comply with an order or request; submissive to another's authority.
Usage examples:
A docile and obedient dog

adjective
Doing or willing to do what you have been asked or ordered to do by someone in authority
Usage examples:
An obedient child, she demands absolute obedience to the rules.

Obedient - all meanings in English

obediency

noun
Obedience.

Obediency - all meanings in English

Obedience synonims

acquiescence

noun
The reluctant acceptance of something without protest.
Usage examples:
In silent acquiescence, she rose to her feet

Acquiescence - all meanings in English

compliance

noun
The action or fact of complying with a wish or command.
Usage examples:
The ways in which the state maintains order and compliance

Compliance - all meanings in English

deference

noun
Polite submission and respect.
Usage examples:
He addressed her with the deference due to age

noun
Respect shown for another person esp. because of that person’s experience, knowledge, age, or power
Usage examples:
In deference to nature lovers, the town refused to grant a permit to builders who would have filled…

Deference - all meanings in English

discipline

noun
The practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience.
Usage examples:
A lack of proper parental and school discipline

verb
Train (someone) to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience.
Usage examples:
Many parents have been afraid to discipline their children

noun
Training that produces obedience or self-control, often in the form of rules and punishments if these are broken, or the obedience or self-control produced by this training
Usage examples:
Military discipline, learning a foreign language requires discipline., an academic discipline, he w…

Discipline - all meanings in English

duty

noun
A moral or legal obligation; a responsibility.
Usage examples:
It's my duty to uphold the law

noun
A responsibility to do something because it is legally or morally right to do it
Usage examples:
Every lawyer has a strong sense of duty and responsibility., a duty to do sth they have a duty to e…

Duty - all meanings in English

malleability

noun
The ability to be easily changed into a new shape
Usage examples:
The material's surprising malleability was previously unknown., gold has amazing physical propertie…

Malleability - all meanings in English

p

ˈfɒsf(ə)rəs

abbreviation
Page.
Usage examples:
See p 784

symbol
(in units of measurement) pico- (10−12).
Usage examples:
A 220 pf capacitor

noun
The sixteenth letter of the alphabet.
Usage examples:
Lets have an s for speedy, and a p for polly, intertwined on the top of the cake, in red frost…

P - all meanings in English

respect

noun
A feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements.
Usage examples:
The director had a lot of respect for douglas as an actor

verb
Admire (someone or something) deeply, as a result of their abilities, qualities, or achievements.
Usage examples:
She was respected by everyone she worked with

noun
Admiration for someone or something that you believe has good ideas or qualities
Usage examples:
I believe people had more respect for teachers back then., some drivers don’t have any respect for …

Respect - all meanings in English

tractability

noun
The quality of being tractable (= easily dealt with, controlled, or persuaded)
Usage examples:
He demands great skill, or, if you have none, great tractability., the engine was renowned for its …

Tractability - all meanings in English

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