servility

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ser=vil=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

servility, n. [Cf. F. servilité.].

 The quality or state of being servile; servileness.  [1913 Webster]
"To be a queen in bondage is more vile
Than is a slave in base servility."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

servility

abjection, abjectness, absolutism, acquiescence, agreeability, agreeableness, allegiance, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, back seat, baseness, bend, bending the knee, biddability, bob, bond service, bondage, bow, bowing and scraping, brown-nosing, captivity, compliableness, compliance, conformity, control, cringing, curtsy, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, dipping the colors, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, docility, domination, ductility, duteousness, dutifulness, enslavement, enthrallment, facility, faith, fawning, fealty, feudalism, feudality, flattery, flexibility, genuflection, helotism, helotry, homage, humbleness, humility, inclination, indentureship, inferiority, juniority, kneeling, kowtow, lowliness, loyalty, making a leg, malleability, meanness, minority, moldability, nod, obedience, obediency, obeisance, obsequiousness, observance, peonage, plasticity, pliability, pliancy, presenting arms, prostration, restraint, reverence, salaam, salutation, salute, scrape, second fiddle, second string, secondariness, serfdom, serfhood, service, servitium, servitude, slavery, slavishness, sliminess, standing at attention, subjection, subjugation, submission, submissiveness, subordinacy, subordination, subservience, suit and service, suit service, sycophancy, sycophantism, third string, thrall, thralldom, toadying, toadyism, tractability, truckling, tyranny, unctuousness, vassalage, vileness, villenage, wheedling, willingness, yieldingness, yoke

ROGET THESAURUS

servility

Servility

N servility, slavery, obsequiousness, subserviency, abasement, prostration, prosternation, genuflection, fawning, tuft- hunting, timeserving, flunkeyism, sycophancy, humility, sycophant, parasite, toad, toady, toad-eater, tufthunter, snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight, timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir- Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank, flatterer, doer of dirty work, ame damnee, tool, reptile, slave, courtier, beat, dead beat, doughface, heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler, servile, obsequious, supple, supple as a glove, soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed, beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical, abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones, base, mean, sneaking, crouching, hat in hand, cap in hand.