Synonyms for deference
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Respect
respect, honor US, honour UK, reverence, regard, obeisance, consideration, veneration, esteem, homage, allegiance, obedience, respectfulness, estimation
2. Compliance
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
Great respect.
The children treated their elders with deference.
- n. 2
The willingness to carry out the wishes of others.
By tidying his room, he showed deference to his mother.
Forms
- Plural
- deferences → respects, honors, reverences, regards…
Example sentences
- respect Respect of the young for the old is quite natural.
- consideration You should have taken all that into consideration.
- reverence I felt profound reverence for the courageous mother.
- obeisance The dictator enforced obeisance on the people.
- politeness What is hard to put up with is his over-politeness.
By length
- 5 letters
- honor2
- 6 letters
- honour2, regard2, esteem2, homage2
- 7 letters
- respect2
- 9 letters
- obedience4, reverence3, gallantry3, obeisance3
- 10 letters
- compliance3, submission3, allegiance3, estimation4, veneration4, politeness3, compliancy
- 12 letters
- complaisance, obligingness
- 13 letters
- consideration5
- 14 letters
- respectfulness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (honor2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- déférence
- Italiano
- deferenza
- Español
- deferencia
- Deutsch
- Ehrerbietung