servility

The condition of being servile.

Noun

  1. 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...

Origin

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.

Forms

servilities

Antonyms

arrogance autonomy