subservience
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan
all his actions were in subservience to the general plan
Types & categories
- condition hypernym
Related & opposite
- subserve derivation
Sense 2 noun
in a subservient state
Types & categories
- subordinateness hypernym
Related & opposite
- submissive derivation
- subservient derivation
Sense 3 noun
abject or cringing submissiveness
Types & categories
- submissiveness hypernym
- sycophancy hyponym
Related & opposite
- servile derivation
- obsequious derivation
- submissive derivation
- bootlicking derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | subserve |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | condition |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | submissive |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | subservient |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | subordinateness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | servile |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | obsequious |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | submissive |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | bootlicking |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | submissiveness |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | sycophancy |