Servility - English meaning

Servility – definitions in English dictionary

noun
An excessive willingness to serve or please others.
Usage examples:
A classic example of media servility
Synonims:
ObsequiousnessSycophancyExcessive deferenceSubservienceSubmissivenessFawningToadyismToadyingGrovellingCringingUnctuousnessOilinessAbjectnessAbjectionCravennessSlavishnessHumil

noun
The quality of being servile (= too eager to serve and please someone else )
Usage examples:
She found the servility of the hotel staff embarrassing., the world they want to create is one of c…

Servility translation into English

Servility: translate from English into Chinese

奴性

Servility: translate from English into Dutch

Slaafsheid, Kruiperigheid

Servility: translate from English into French

Servilité, Bassesse

Servility: translate from English into German

Unterwürfigkeit, Servilität

Servility: translate from English into Hindi

चापलूसी, दासता, गुलामी, भृत्यभाव, चाटुकारिता, कमीनापन, ख़ुशामद, नीचता

Servility: translate from English into Italian

Servilismo

Servility: translate from English into Korean

노예 근성, 노예 상태

Servility: translate from English into Russian

Раболепие, Подобострастие, Раболепство

Servility: translate from English into Spanish

Servilismo

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Servility – similar words

servilism

noun
Advocacy or support for servile attitudes to (especially political) authority. chiefly as a derogatory term used by political liberals for their opponents. now chiefly as a contextual use of sense 1b.

noun
More generally: servile behaviour or attitudes; excessive deference, obsequiousness.

noun
The condition or status of being (literally or effectively) a slave; servitude.

Servilism - all meanings in English

servileness

noun
The state or quality of being servile; servility.

Servileness - all meanings in English

servile

adjective
Having or showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others.
Usage examples:
He bowed his head in a servile manner

adjective
Eager to serve and please someone else in a way that shows a lack of respect for yourself
Usage examples:
As a waiter, you want to be pleasant to people without appearing servile.

Servile - all meanings in English

Servility synonims

abjection

æbˈdʒek.ʃən

noun
The state of being extremely unhappy, poor, unsuccessful, etc.
Usage examples:
The actor does a great job in portraying the abjection of this most pitiful of characters., working…

Abjection - all meanings in English

cravenness

ˈkreɪ.vən.nəs

noun
The quality of being extremely cowardly (= not brave)
Usage examples:
The situation is made worse by the cravenness of politicians in refusing to tackle it.

Cravenness - all meanings in English

cringing

krɪndʒ

adjective
Bent in fear or apprehension.
Usage examples:
He lugged his carry-on bag and computer case past cringing passengers wary of being hit

verb
Bend one's head and body in fear or apprehension or in a servile manner.
Usage examples:
He cringed away from the blow

verb
Present participle of cringe

Cringing - all meanings in English

fawning

ˈfɔː.nɪŋ

adjective
Displaying exaggerated flattery or affection; obsequious.
Usage examples:
Fawning adoration

verb
(of a deer) produce young.
Usage examples:
The forest was closed for hunting when the does were fawning

verb
(of a person) give a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection, typically in order to gain favour.

Fawning - all meanings in English

grovelling

adjective
Acting obsequiously in order to obtain forgiveness or favour.
Usage examples:
His grovelling references to ‘great’ historians

noun
Obsequious behaviour aimed at obtaining forgiveness or favour.
Usage examples:
It was time to give in and do a bit of grovelling

verb
Lie or crawl abjectly on the ground with one's face downwards.
Usage examples:
He grovelled at george's feet

Grovelling - all meanings in English

submissiveness

noun
The quality of being submissive.
Usage examples:
He didn't confuse respect with submissiveness

Submissiveness - all meanings in English

subservience

noun
Willingness to obey others unquestioningly.
Usage examples:
He demonstrated his complete subservience to his masters

noun
A willingness to do what other people want, or the act of considering your wishes as less important than those of other people
Usage examples:
She lives in total subservience to the men in her family., after years of subservience to the west,…

Subservience - all meanings in English

sycophancy

noun
Obsequious behaviour towards someone important in order to gain advantage.
Usage examples:
Your fawning sycophancy is nauseating

Sycophancy - all meanings in English

toadying

verb
Act in an obsequious way.
Usage examples:
She imagined him toadying to his rich clients

noun
A person who behaves obsequiously to someone important.
Usage examples:
He calls it a ‘parasite’, which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on, a toady, a…

noun
A pufferfish.

Toadying - all meanings in English

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