Definition for Obedience:

• A willing compliance with what is required; submission to authority.

Synonyms for Obedience:

• n.

  •
  • resist.
  •acquiescence (noun)
  • yieldings,
  • giving ins.
  •act (noun)
  • obedience,
  • respect,
  • obeisance.
  •agreement (noun)
  • compliance.
  •amenability (noun)
  • co operativenesses,
  • co operativeness,
  • good-naturednesses,
  • co-operativeness,
  • goodnaturednesses,
  • cooperativenesses,
  • good naturednesses,
  • co-operativenesses.
  •compliance (noun)
  • affirmation,
  • surrender,
  • servility,
  • fulfillment,
  • genuflection,
  • acceptance,
  • concurrence,
  • capitulation,
  • conformity,
  • assent,
  • fealty,
  • acquiescence,
  • willingness,
  • consent,
  • resignation,
  • homage,
  • agreement,
  • deference,
  • submissiveness,
  • meekness,
  • conformance.
  •conformity (noun)
  • congruity,
  • formality,
  • accordance,
  • manner,
  • consistency,
  • convention,
  • custom,
  • etiquette,
  • correctness,
  • propriety,
  • tradition,
  • ritual,
  • regularity.
  •docility (noun)
  • docility.
  •duty (noun)
  • devoirs,
  • call of duty,
  • answerability,
  • devoir,
  • Accountableness.
  •gentleness (noun)
  • tamenesses.
  •good behavior; submissiveness (noun)
  • manageability,
  • dutifulness,
  • Conformability,
  • orderliness,
  • Duteousness,
  • reverence,
  • subservience,
  • quietness.
  •humility (noun)
  • nonresistance,
  • subjection,
  • fawning,
  • timidity,
  • obsequiousness,
  • self-abasement,
  • sheepishness,
  • shyness,
  • self-abnegation,
  • timorousness,
  • lack of pride,
  • Non-resistance,
  • unobtrusiveness.
  •loyalty (noun)
  • in violabilities,
  • truenesses,
  • up-rightness,
  • trueheartednesses,
  • single mindedness,
  • in-violabilities,
  • trustworthinesses,
  • trustinesses,
  • re solutions,
  • in-corruptibilities,
  • single-mindednesses,
  • up rightness,
  • devotednesses,
  • singlemindednesses,
  • in violability,
  • staunchnesses,
  • re-liabilities,
  • re-solutions,
  • in corruptibilities,
  • up rightnesses,
  • re liabilities,
  • up-rightnesses,
  • re liability,
  • single mindednesses,
  • in corruptibility,
  • in-violability,
  • re-solution,
  • re-liability,
  • in-corruptibility.
  •obedience (noun)
  • faithfulness,
  • devotion.
  •observance (noun)
  • carrying outs,
  • dis charges,
  • dis-charge,
  • re marks,
  • heedings,
  • re gards,
  • re-gard,
  • re-marks,
  • dis charge,
  • re mark,
  • dis-charges,
  • honorings.
  •piety (noun)
  • devoutness,
  • christianity,
  • dogmatism,
  • worshipfulness,
  • sanctification,
  • piousness,
  • fidelity,
  • holiness,
  • cultism,
  • religiousness,
  • superstitiousness,
  • prayerfulness,
  • solemnity,
  • sanctimoniousness.
  •servility (noun)
  • subordination,
  • slavishness,
  • Lowliness,
  • yieldingness,
  • complaisance,
  • inferiority,
  • humbleness.
  •servitude (noun)
  • peonages,
  • vassalages,
  • serfhoods.
  •submission (noun)
  • defeatisms,
  • cringings,
  • sub mission,
  • pliabilties,
  • passivisms,
  • sur-render,
  • unassertivenesses,
  • sub-missions,
  • sur-renders,
  • submittings,
  • sub missions,
  • sur renders,
  • backing downs,
  • un-assertiveness,
  • sub-mission,
  • un assertiveness,
  • un-assertivenesses,
  • un assertivenesses.
  •subordination (noun)
  • service,
  • thrall,
  • slavery,
  • supineness,
  • bondage,
  • enslavement,
  • constraint.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • amenability,
  • compliancy,
  • cooperation,
  • tractableness,
  • integrity,
  • opiate,
  • two-way street,
  • give and take,
  • amenableness,
  • tractability,
  • discipline,
  • legalism.
  •
  • pliability,
  • opium.
  •
  • order.
  •Other relevant words:
  • flexibility,
  • faith,
  • Obeying,
  • conforming,
  • comply,
  • kneeling,
  • bend,
  • recognition,
  • Adhering,
  • orthodoxy,
  • adjustableness,
  • Conformableness,
  • promise,
  • Adaption,
  • abidance,
  • passiveness,
  • resignedness,
  • esteem,
  • dedication,
  • oppression,
  • Heeding,
  • keeping,
  • tutelage,
  • discharge,
  • observing,
  • bowing,
  • strictness,
  • line,
  • obey,
  • agreeableness,
  • employ,
  • satisfaction,
  • accord,
  • Recognizing,
  • pliancy,
  • Tendence,
  • passivity,
  • submittal,
  • honor,
  • Servitorship,
  • agreeability,
  • godliness,
  • Respecting,
  • conformation,
  • arch,
  • heed,
  • concession,
  • nonviolent resistance,
  • harmony,
  • correspondence,
  • regard,
  • complying,
  • respectfulness,
  • Reconcilement,
  • malleability,
  • bow,
  • biddability,
  • adaptation,
  • severity,
  • conformism,
  • versatility,
  • attention,
  • acquittal,
  • attend to orders,
  • Clientship,
  • adjustability,
  • worship,
  • yoke,
  • adjustment,
  • performance,
  • observation,
  • conventionality,
  • passive resistance,
  • uniformity,
  • liability,
  • filial piety,
  • consecration,
  • adaptability,
  • reconciliation,
  • do one's bidding,
  • accommodation,
  • quietism,
  • traditionalism.

Paraphrases for Obedience:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    compliance.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    subordination.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    observance, adherence.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    obeisance, allegiance, submission.

Antonyms for Obedience:

• n.

  • act
    disobedience.
  • good behavior; submissiveness
    disregard, disagreement, rebellion, fight, bad behavior, mischief, mutiny, misbehavior.
  • Other antonyms:
    contravention, hardheadedness, balkiness, noncompliance, animosity, breach, contrariness, dissent, impudence, enmity, dereliction, infringement, treason, nonobservance, willfulness, insurrection, infraction, unruliness, waywardness, mischievousness, brush off, sedition, neglect, trespass, transgression, challenge, mulishness, disaffection, frowardness, insolence, noncooperation, antipathy, violation, insurgency, disloyalty, refractoriness, offense, outbreak, revolt, rudeness, dissidence, contumacy, wrong, naughtiness, intractability, recusancy, rebelling, sin, Insurgence, disrespect, Flouting, self-will, perversity, obstinateness, rebelliousness, pigheadedness, delinquency, obstreperousness, hostility, overlooking.

Obedience Sentence Examples:

• In obedience to the command of Garrofat, Bright - Wits presented himself in the great council hall of the palace at noon of the next day.

• This was in fact the case: He had quitted Memphis in obedience to a letter from Haschim.

Homophones for Obedience:

• obediance.

Hypernym for Obedience:

• n.

  • act
    truckling.
  • attribute
    submissiveness.

Hyponym for Obedience:

• n.

  • act
    compliance, submission, filial duty.
  • attribute
    flexibility, tractableness, tractability.