Definition for Submissiveness:

• Acknowledgment of inferiority; confession of fault or blame.

Synonyms for Submissiveness:

• n.

  •
  • resist.
  •acquiescence (noun)
  • giving ins,
  • yieldings.
  •agreement (noun)
  • compliance.
  •amenability (noun)
  • co-operativeness,
  • goodnaturednesses,
  • good-naturednesses,
  • co-operativenesses,
  • co operativenesses,
  • cooperativenesses,
  • good naturednesses,
  • co operativeness.
  •attribute (noun)
  • submissiveness.
  •compliance (noun)
  • capitulation,
  • consent,
  • fulfillment,
  • willingness,
  • adherence,
  • acceptance,
  • respect,
  • fealty,
  • affirmation,
  • concurrence,
  • meekness,
  • agreement,
  • obedience,
  • homage,
  • obeisance,
  • genuflection,
  • conformance,
  • servility,
  • surrender,
  • acquiescence,
  • assent,
  • deference,
  • observance,
  • conformity.
  •conformity (noun)
  • convention,
  • etiquette,
  • manner,
  • congruity,
  • consistency,
  • accordance,
  • tradition,
  • formality,
  • ritual,
  • correctness,
  • custom,
  • regularity,
  • propriety.
  •docility (noun)
  • docility.
  •humiliation (noun)
  • dis graces,
  • dis honor,
  • dis-grace,
  • self abasements,
  • selfabasements,
  • dis-honor,
  • in dignities,
  • in-dignities,
  • dis grace,
  • in-dignity,
  • dis-graces,
  • de-gradations,
  • mental pains,
  • de gradations,
  • dis honors,
  • de-gradation,
  • self-abasements,
  • selfabasement,
  • in dignity,
  • loss face,
  • dis-honors,
  • self abasement,
  • humblings,
  • touche,
  • de gradation.
  •humility (noun)
  • mildness,
  • contrition,
  • selflessness,
  • plainness,
  • homeliness,
  • unobtrusiveness,
  • modesty,
  • unpretentiousness,
  • sheepishness,
  • unassumingness.
  •prostration (noun)
  • powerlessness.
  •resignation (noun)
  • resignedness,
  • sufferance,
  • longanimity,
  • patientness.
  •servility (noun)
  • inferiority,
  • subjection,
  • subservience,
  • duty,
  • humbleness,
  • complaisance,
  • yieldingness,
  • subordination,
  • slavishness,
  • serfdom,
  • servitude,
  • Lowliness,
  • vassalage.
  •submission (noun)
  • pliabilties,
  • sur-renders,
  • backing downs,
  • sub-mission,
  • passivisms,
  • submittings,
  • un-assertivenesses,
  • sub-missions,
  • sur-render,
  • un assertivenesses,
  • defeatisms,
  • sub mission,
  • unassertivenesses,
  • un-assertiveness,
  • sub missions,
  • un assertiveness,
  • sur renders,
  • cringings.
  •tractability (noun)
  • re-spects,
  • tamenesses,
  • re spects,
  • re spect,
  • duteousnesses,
  • re-spect,
  • conformabilities,
  • dutifulnesses,
  • manageabilities.
  •willingness (noun)
  • cooperation,
  • readiness,
  • persuadability,
  • flexibility,
  • adaptability,
  • pliability,
  • tractability,
  • amenability,
  • agreeability,
  • ductility,
  • earnestness,
  • receptiveness,
  • malleability,
  • acquiescent,
  • eagerness,
  • susceptibility.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • compliancy,
  • tractableness,
  • amenableness.

Paraphrases for Submissiveness:

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    subservience, subjugation, subjection, submission.

Antonyms for Submissiveness:

• n.

  • obedience
    nonconformity, refusal, disrespect, disregard, disdain, fight, disagreement, dishonor, disobedience.
  • Other antonyms:
    defiance, antipathy, hostility, animosity, intractability, enmity, recalcitrance.

Submissiveness Sentence Examples:

• She now entered into a brisk parting conversation with Colville, such as ladies love, blocking the narrow sidewalk with herself, her daughter, and her open carriage door, and making people walk round her cab, in the road, which they did meekly enough, with the Florentine submissiveness to the pretensions of any sort of vehicle.

• Nana began to display the sullen submissiveness of a trapped animal.

Hypernym for Submissiveness:

• n.

  • attribute
    passiveness, subservience, obsequiousness, servility, subordination, passivity.

Hyponym for Submissiveness:

• n.

  • attribute
    obedience.