subservience
1. the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan - all his actions were in subservience to the general plan • Derivationally related forms: subserve • Hypernyms: condition, status 2. in a subservient state • Syn: subservientness • Derivationally related forms: subservient (for: subservientness) • Hypernyms: subordinateness, subsidiarity 3. abject or cringing submissiveness • Syn: obsequiousness, servility • Derivationally related forms: subservient, servile (for: servility), obsequious (for: obsequiousness) • Hypernyms: submissiveness • Hyponyms: sycophancy
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