Synonyms for servility
Most common
flattery fawning subservience sycophancy meanness baseness slavery bondage
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Subservience
2. Meanness
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The condition of being servile.
Forms
- Plural
- servilities → subserviences, sycophancies, flatteries, fawnings…
Example sentences
- flattery Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
- sycophancy So much sycophancy was lavished on him that he ended up getting drunk.
- meanness I took for granted that he was above such meanness.
- baseness Rejoicing in someone's misfortune is a sign of baseness.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| servility | steady | |
| flattery | rising | |
| fawning | rising | |
| subservience | steady | |
| sycophancy | steady | |
| meanness | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- slavery3, bondage2, fawning2
- 8 letters
- flattery3, meanness2, baseness
- 9 letters
- abjection
- 10 letters
- sycophancy, abjectness
- 11 letters
- slavishness
- 12 letters
- subservience4
- 14 letters
- obsequiousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (slavery3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- servilité
- Italiano
- servilismo