- obedience
- n1. compliance, conformity, acquiescence, abidance, acceptance; yielding, submission, subjection, morigeration, allegiance, observance; reverence, deference, respect, respectfulness; submis-siveness, adapability, malleability, tractability, ductility, pliancy; dutifulness, faithfulness; meekness, timidity, gentleness, passiveness, docility.2. subservience, obsequiousness; servility, ingratia-tion, prostration, obeisance, abasement; truckling, bowing, scraping, fawning, cowering, cringing, crawling, toadying, Inf. bootlicking; self-effacement, self-surrender, self-abasement.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.