servility en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˌsɝˈvɪ.lɪ.ti/ (US)
- /ˌsɜːˈvɪ.lɪ.ti/ (UK)
- /səˈvɪ.lɪ.ti/ (UK)
- /sɚˈvɪ.lɪ.ti/ (US)
Etymology
Etymology tree English servile Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English servility From servile + -ity.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The condition of being servile.
Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis.
1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 425:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| servilities | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Translations (29)
sv underdånighet (condition of being servile) · el ανελευθερία (condition of being servile) · bg сервилност (condition of being servile) · ro servilism (condition of being servile) · el ραγιαδισμός (condition of being servile) · sv kryperi (condition of being servile) · cs servilita (condition of being servile) · cs servilnost (condition of being servile) · es servilismo (condition of being servile) · fi nöyryys (condition of being servile) · de Servilismus (condition of being servile) · de Servilität (condition of being servile) · ro servilitate (condition of being servile) · ja 卑屈 (condition of being servile) · gl servilismo (condition of being servile) · vo lusumät (condition of being servile) · sv servilitet (condition of being servile) · it servilismo (condition of being servile) · ru раболе́пие (condition of being servile) · pl serwilizm (condition of being servile) · ga uirísle (condition of being servile) · el δουλικότητα (condition of being servile) · ja 奴隷根性 (condition of being servile) · ja 隷従 (condition of being servile) · la servīlitās (condition of being servile) · cmn 奴性 (condition of being servile) · bg раболепие (condition of being servile) · th ความอ่อนน้อม (condition of being servile) · de Speichelleckerei (condition of being servile)