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subordination

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of subordination

a bending to the authority or control of another

an oligarchy requires subordination by the masses to the will of a tiny elite

Synonyms of subordination

compliance, conformity, obedience, submission

Words Related to subordination

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 subordination

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 subordination

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

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