Definition for Obedience:

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

Synonyms for Obedience:

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • respect,
  • obeisance.
  •agreement (noun)
  • compliance.
  •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.
  •good behavior; submissiveness (noun)
  • dutifulness,
  • subservience,
  • docility,
  • Conformability,
  • manageability,
  • reverence,
  • orderliness,
  • quietness,
  • Duteousness.
  •humility (noun)
  • nonresistance,
  • timidity,
  • subjection.
  •obedience (noun)
  • faithfulness,
  • devotion.
  •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.
  •subordination (noun)
  • service,
  • thrall,
  • slavery,
  • supineness,
  • bondage,
  • enslavement,
  • constraint.

• Other synonyms:

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

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.

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.