Obedience

Noun

 * 1) The quality of being obedient.
 * Obedience is essential in any army.
 * 1) *1918,, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII
 * Cautioning Nobs to silence, and he had learned many lessons in the value of obedience since we had entered Caspak, I slunk forward, taking advantage of whatever cover I could find...

Antonyms

 * disobedience

Related terms

 * obey
 * obedient

Adjectives for Obedience
military; implicit; hallowed; mechanical; true; fractional; infallible; divine; prompt; strict; characteristic; punctilious; scrupulous; instinctive; faithful; universal; rigid;  unquestioning; weary; filial; instant; compliant; blind; passive; voluntary; plausible; slavish; transitory; hideous; docile; reverential.

Verbs for Obedience
abjure—; approve—; coerce into—; demand —; dispute—; enforce—; enslave by—; exact—; feign—; owe—to; profess—; reduce to—; submit in—; suffer—; train to—; yield —; —binds.

Thesaurus
Quakerism, acceptance, accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence, adaptability, adaptation, adaption, adjustment, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, amenability, assent, complaisance, compliance, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, consent, consistency, conventionality, correspondence, deference, docility, dutifulness, flexibility, harmony, homage, humbleness, humility, keeping, kneeling, line, malleability, meekness, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance, nonviolent resistance, obeisance, observance, orthodoxy, passive resistance, passiveness, passivity, pliancy, quietism, reconcilement, reconciliation, resignation, resignedness, respect, respectfulness, strictness, subjection, submission, submissiveness, submittal, subservience, supineness, tractability, traditionalism, uncomplainingness, uniformity, yielding

Etymology
From obedience:, obedienz:, from  obedience: (modern French obédience:), from  oboedientia:.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: obediència
 * Chinese: 百依百顺 (bǎiyībǎishùn)
 * Croatian: pokornost
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: obeemo
 * Estonian: sõnakuulelikkus
 * Finnish: kuuliaisuus
 * French:
 * Georgian: მორჩილი (morč’ili)
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: צַיְתָנוּת (tzaytanut)
 * Hindi: agya palana, pharmabaradari
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: kepatuhan
 * Irish: umhlaíocht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 従順 (じゅうじゅん) (jūjun)
 * Korean: 복종 (bokjong)


 * Kurdish: guhdarî
 * Latvian: paklausība
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian: lydighet
 * Persian: (râmi)
 * Polish: posłuszeństwo
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ascultare
 * Russian:, покорность
 * Serbian: покорност (pokornost)
 * Slovak: poslušnosť
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: lydnad
 * Tagalog: pagsunod
 * Telugu: విధేయత (vidhaeyata)
 * Thai: (gaan chêua fang)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: покірність (pokírnist’)
 * Uyghur: itaet
 * Vietnamese: sự nghe lời
 * Welsh: ufudd-dod
 * Yiddish: פֿאָלגן (folgn)
 * Yoruba: igboran