Deference

Noun

 * 1) Great respect.
 * The children treated their elders with deference.
 * 1) The willingness to carry out the wishes of others.
 * By tidying his room, he showed deference to his mother.

Adjectives for Deference
unfeigned; suave; condescending; pleasant exceeding; scrupulous; blissful; unfailing chivalrous; particular; bullying; servile; secret; resentful; respectful; awesome self-restraining; punctilious; exquisite; due; apparent; ungrudging; utmost; habitual admiring; careless; sympathetic.

Verbs for Deference
acknowledge—; allow—; bestow—; bow in—-; choose out of—; claim—; conduct with—; entitle to—; grant—; nod in—; pay—; proceed with—; render—; respect—; respond to—; tender—; transact with—; treat with—; yield—.

Thesaurus
acceptance, acquiescence, admiration, adoration, affability, agreeableness, allegiance, amenity, apotheosis, appreciation, approbation, approval, assent, assigned task, awe, bounden duty, breathless adoration, burden, business, call of duty, charge, civility, comity, commitment, complaisance, compliance, consent, considerateness, consideration, courteousness, courtesy, dedication, deification, devoir, devotion, duties and responsibilities, duty, esteem, estimation, ethics, exaggerated respect, favor, fealty, gracefulness, graciousness, great respect, hero worship, high regard, homage, honor, idolatry, idolization, imperative, kneeling, line of duty, loyalty, mission, must, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance, obedience, obeisance, obligation, onus, ought, passiveness, passivity, place, politeness, prestige, regard, resignation, resignedness, respect, respectfulness, reverence, reverential regard, self-imposed duty, solicitousness, solicitude, subjection, submission, submissiveness, submittal, supineness, tact, tactfulness, thoughtfulness, urbanity, veneration, worship, yielding

Translations

 * Bulgarian: почит
 * Danish: ærbødighed
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: kunnioitus, arvonanto
 * Italian:
 * Spanish: deferencia


 * Bulgarian: отстъпка, съобразяване
 * Filipino: pagiging
 * Italian:


 * Tagalog: pagiging

Synonyms

 * honor
 * respect