submissiveness

a readiness or willingness to yield to the wishes of others his uncharacteristic submissiveness to the doctor's advice must mean he's really sick Synonyms acquiescence, biddability, compliancy, deference, docility, obedience, complianceRelated Words 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, sociabilityNear Antonyms animosity, antipathy, enmity, hostility, ill willAntonyms defiance, disobedience, intractability, recalcitrance