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obedience

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of obedience

1 a bending to the authority or control of another

  • the drill sergeant demanded complete and unquestioning obedience from the recruits
Synonyms of obedience

compliance, conformity, submission, subordination
Words Related to obedience

abidance, agreeability, amenability, teachableness, tractability, tractableness, trainability

acquiescence, capitulation, obeisance, obsequiousness, submissiveness, surrender, yielding

deference, docility, dutifulness, humility, meekness, modesty, servility, slavishness, subordinateness, subservience, subserviency

inhibition, repression, restraint, suppression

control, discipline, dutifulness, order
Near Antonyms of obedience

noncooperation, recusancy

disrespect, impudence, insolence, rudeness

insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, outbreak, revolt

hardheadedness, mulishness, mutinousness, obstinacy, obstinateness, perversity, pigheadedness, stubbornness

misbehavior, mischievousness, naughtiness

dissent, dissidence
Antonyms of obedience

balkiness, contrariness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, insubordination, intractability, noncompliance, obstreperousness, rebelling, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, self-will, unruliness, waywardness, willfulness

2 a readiness or willingness to yield to the wishes of others

  • the cowardly obedience with which the dictatorʼs henchmen followed his every command
Synonyms of obedience

acquiescence, biddability, compliance, compliancy, deference, docility, submissiveness
Words Related to obedience

amenability, amiability, complaisance, good-naturedness

obsequiousness, servility, slavishness, subservience, subserviency

conformity

cooperativeness, receptiveness, receptivity

humoring, indulgence

acceptance, assent, consent

capitulation, submission, surrender

affability, amicability, congeniality, cordiality, friendliness, geniality, sociability
Near Antonyms of obedience

animosity, antipathy, enmity, hostility, ill will
Antonyms of obedience

defiance, disobedience, intractability, recalcitrance

3 the following of a custom, rule, or law

  • expectations of strict obedience to the guidelines were soon dashed
Synonyms of obedience

abidance, adherence, compliance, conformance, conformity, keeping, observance, observation
Words Related to obedience

deference, honor, regard, respect, upholding

accession, acquiescence, submission, surrender

attendance, attention, heed, notice
Near Antonyms of obedience

brush-off, disregard, ignoring

delinquency, dereliction, forgetting, neglect, overlooking

offense (or offence), sin, wrong

challenge, defiance, flouting, rebellion
Antonyms of obedience

breach, contravention, infraction, infringement, nonobservance, transgression, trespass, violation

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