obedience

Entry Word:: obedience
Function:: noun

Text: 1 a bending to the authority or control of another <the drill sergeant demanded complete and unquestioning obedience from the recruits> Synonymscompliance, conformity, observance, submission, subordination Related Wordsacquiescence, agreeability, amenability; docility, submissiveness; capitulation, surrender, yielding; servility, slavishness, subservience; inhibition, repression, restraint, suppression; control, discipline, order Near Antonymscontrariness, frowardness, intractability, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness; disrespect, impudence, insolence, rudeness; insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, revolt; hardheadedness, mulishness, obstinacy, perversity, stubbornness, willfulness; misbehavior, mischievousness, naughtiness; dissent, dissidence Antonymsdisobedience, insubordination, noncompliance, rebelling, rebellion 2 a readiness or willingness to yield to the wishes of others <the cowardly obedience with which the dictator's henchmen followed his every command> — see compliance 1

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