compliance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: com=pli=ance

CIDE DICTIONARY

compliance, n. [See Comply.].

•  The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.  [1913 Webster]

  "What compliances will remove dissension?"  [1913 Webster]

  "Ready compliance with the wishes of his people."  [1913 Webster]
•  A disposition to yield to others; complaisance.  [1913 Webster]

  "A man of few words and of great compliance."

Syn. -- Concession; submission; consent; obedience; performance; execution; acquiescence; assent.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

compliance, n.
1 the act or an instance of complying; obedience to a request, command, etc.
2 Mech. a the capacity to yield under an applied force. b the degree of such yielding.
3 unworthy acquiescence.

Idiom

in compliance with according to (a wish, command, etc.).

THESAURUS

compliance

OK, Quakerism, acceptance, accession, accommodatingness, accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence, acquittal, acquittance, adaptation, adaption, adherence, adjustment, affability, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, agreement in principle, alacrity, allegiance, amenability, amiability, approbation, approval, ardor, assent, assentation, aye, benevolence, benignity, blessing, care, carrying out, cheerful consent, complaisance, concurrence, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, connivance, consent, consistency, conventionality, cooperativeness, correspondence, decency, deference, discharge, docility, duteousness, dutifulness, eagerness, endorsement, enthusiasm, execution, faith, favorable disposition, favorableness, fealty, flexibility, forwardness, fulfillment, gameness, general agreement, generousness, goodwill, graciosity, graciousness, harmony, hearty assent, heed, heeding, homage, humbleness, humility, keeping, kindliness, kindness, kneeling, line, loyalty, malleability, meekness, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance, nonviolent resistance, obedience, obediency, obeisance, obligingness, observance, observation, okay, orthodoxy, passive resistance, passiveness, passivity, performance, permission, pliability, pliancy, practice, promptitude, promptness, quietism, ratification, readiness, receptive mood, receptiveness, receptivity, reconcilement, reconciliation, resignation, resignedness, respect, responsiveness, right mood, sanction, satisfaction, service, servility, servitium, strictness, subjection, submission, submissiveness, submittal, suit and service, suit service, supineness, support, tractability, traditionalism, uncomplainingness, ungrudgingness, uniformity, unloathness, unreluctance, warm assent, welcome, willing ear, willing heart, willingness, yielding, zeal, zealousness

ROGET THESAURUS

compliance

Willingness

N willingness, voluntariness, willing mind, heart, disposition, inclination, leaning, animus, frame of mind, humor, mood, vein, bent, penchant, aptitude, docility, docibleness, persuasibleness, persuasibility, pliability, geniality, cordiality, goodwill, alacrity, readiness, earnestness, forwardness, eagerness, asset, compliance, pleasure, gratuitous service, labor of love, volunteer, volunteering, willing, minded, fain, disposed, inclined, favorable, favorably- minded, favorably inclined, favorably disposed, nothing loth, in the vein, in the mood, in the humor, in the mind, ready, forward, earnest, eager, bent upon, predisposed, propense, docile, persuadable, persuasible, suasible, easily persuaded, facile, easy-going, tractable, genial, gracious, cordial, cheering, hearty, content, voluntary, gratuitous, spontaneous, unasked &c (ask), unforced, willingly, fain, freely, as lief, heart and soul, with pleasure, with all one's heart, with open arms, with good will, with right will, de bonne volonte, ex animo, con amore, heart in hand, nothing loth, without reluctance, of one's own accord, graciously, with a good grace, a la bonne heure, by all means, by all manner of means, to one's heart's content, yes.

Obedience

N obedience, observance, compliance, submission, subjection, nonresistance, passiveness, resignation, allegiance, loyalty, fealty, homage, deference, devotion, constancy, fidelity, submissness, submissiveness, ductility, obsequiousness, obedient, complying, compliant, loyal, faithful, devoted, at one's call, at one's command, at one's orders, at one's beck and call, under beck and call, under control, restrainable, resigned, passive, submissive, henpecked, pliant, unresisted, obediently, in compliance with, in obedience to, to hear is to obey, as you please, if you please, your wish is my command, as you wish, no sooner said than done.

Consent

N consent, assent, acquiescence, approval, compliance, agreement, concession, yieldance, yieldingness, accession, acknowledgment, acceptance, agnition, settlement, ratification, confirmation, adjustment, permit, promise, consenting, squeezable, agreed, unconditional, OK, yes, by all means, no problem, if you please, as you please, be it so, so be it, well and good, of course, please do, don't hesitate, chi tace accousente.

Observance

N observance, performance, compliance, acquiescence, concurrence, obedience, fulfillment, satisfaction, discharge, acquittance, acquittal, adhesion, acknowledgment, fidelity, exact, observance, observant, faithful, true, loyal, honorable, true as the dial to the sun, true as the needle to the pole, punctual, punctilious, literal, as good as one's word, faithfully, ignoscito saepe alteri nunquam tibi, tempori parendum, to God, thy country, and thy friend be true.