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a bending to the authority or control of another<the drill sergeant demanded complete and unquestioning obedience from the recruits>Synonymscompliance, conformity, observance, submission, subordinationRelated Wordsacquiescence, agreeability, amenability; docility, submissiveness; capitulation, surrender, yielding; servility, slavishness, subservience; inhibition, repression, restraint, suppression; control, discipline, orderNear Antonymscontrariness, frowardness, intractability, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness; disrespect, impudence, insolence, rudeness; insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, revolt; hardheadedness, mulishness, obstinacy, perversity, stubbornness, willfulness; misbehavior, mischievousness, naughtiness; dissent, dissidenceAntonymsdisobedience, insubordination, noncompliance, rebelling, rebellion
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a readiness or willingness to yield to the wishes of others<the cowardly obedience with which the dictatorʼs henchmen followed his every command>— see compliance 1
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