Subservience

/sʌbsˈɜːvi‍əns/

/səbˈsɝviəns/

[noun]

Subservience

[NOUN]

abject or cringing submissiveness

synonyms : obsequiousness

servility

the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan

in a subservient state

synonyms : subservientness

Examples

1. This rationale established male precedence and female subservience in Japan.

2. Or the internet mocked you, perhaps, for your subservience to your drone masters.

3. According to Reverend J. Allen Kirk, a Black witness to the events in Wilmington, the threat of white subservience was commonly used to inspire fear.

4. Critic Paul Murray, from Oxford University, sees the plot of Dracula as an allegory of male insecurity and the dangers of subservience to another person.