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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Epicurus

Meaning of "servility" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SERVILITY

servility  [sɜːˈvɪlɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SERVILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Servility is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SERVILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of servility in the English dictionary

The first definition of servility in the dictionary is the state of being obsequious or fawning in attitude or behaviour; submissiveness. Other definition of servility is the state of being of or suitable for a slave. Servility is also the state of existing in or relating to a state of slavery.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SERVILITY


ability
əˈbɪlɪtɪ
accessibility
əkˌsɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
availability
əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ
capability
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪ
civility
sɪˈvɪlɪtɪ
compatibility
kəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
disability
ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
facility
fəˈsɪlɪtɪ
flexibility
ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
incivility
ɪnsɪˈvɪlɪtɪ
liability
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
mobility
məʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
nobility
nəʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
possibility
ˌpɒsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
reliability
rɪˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
responsibility
rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
stability
stəˈbɪlɪtɪ
uncivility
ˌʌnsɪˈvɪlɪtɪ
utility
juːˈtɪlɪtɪ
visibility
ˌvɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SERVILITY

servicewomen
servicing
servient
servient tenement
serviette
serviette ring
servile
servile work
servilely
servileness
servilism
serving
serving dish
serving hatch
serving spoon
servitor
servitorial
servitorship
servitress
servitude

WORDS THAT END LIKE SERVILITY

accountability
affordability
agility
credibility
durability
eligibility
feasibility
fertility
functionality
hostility
humility
inability
inevitability
instability
profitability
suitability
sustainability
usability
variability
versatility
vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of servility in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SERVILITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «servility» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of servility

Translation of «servility» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SERVILITY

Find out the translation of servility to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of servility from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «servility» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

奴性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

servilismo
570 millions of speakers

English

servility
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चापलूसी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الهوان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

угодничество
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

servilismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

servility
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

servilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Servisi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unterwürfigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

奴隷根性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

노예 근성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Servility
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thân phận ở đợ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அடிமைத்தனம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गुलामगिरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kölelik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

servilismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

służalczość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

догідництво
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

slugărnicie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δουλικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

slaaf
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

servilitet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

servilitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of servility

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SERVILITY»

The term «servility» is quite widely used and occupies the 43.796 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SERVILITY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about servility

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3 QUOTES WITH «SERVILITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word servility.
1
Georges Bataille
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
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Epicurus
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
3
Hortense Odlum
It is not serving, but servility, that is menial.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SERVILITY»

Discover the use of servility in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to servility and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
New China's long march from servility to freedom
This book is part of a broad study on Confucianism and its implications for the modernisation of East Asia.
Wei-Bin Zhang, 2007
2
Exploitation: What it is and why It's Wrong
There is an important parallel with servility here. Hill defines servility as a kind of behavior displaying the "absence of a certain kind of self- respect." Hill says that behavior isn't servile if it is engaged in for some higher goal (such as providing ...
Ruth J. Sample, 2003
3
Dignity, Character and Self-Respect
Patterson is persuasive, but true servility is possible. Sambo could have been genuinely servile. Certainly every effort was made to make him so. Thereis therefore room for uncertainty. Further, it isnot clear that Sambo can himself definitively ...
Robin S. Dillon, 2013
4
Autonomy and Self-Respect
In the first place, I am curious to see if there is a legitimate source for the increasingly common feeling that servility can be as much a vice as arrogance. There seems to be something morally defective about the Uncle Tom and the submissive ...
Thomas E. Hill, 1991
5
Impossible Exchange
Something of this exemption from sacrifice and something of the consequent servility persists in 'liberated' man, particularly in today's servility - not the servility which precedes liberation, but the servility which succeeds it. Servility of the second ...
Jean Baudrillard, 2001
6
On Top of Beacon Hill: Eastern Approach to Enlightenment, ...
As emotive hunger grows in the belly of nonexistence, so will your need of servility and power in practical sequence. Sure, external forces may crookYou down by the scruff, or even vest a big stick in your palm, but purpose can always be ...
Brannon Gerling, 2011
7
Burdened Virtues : Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles: ...
The first and third cases clearly relate servility to structures of oppression. The examples together suggest that servility consists in ''the absence of a certain kind of self-respect'' (1973, 97). In the language of virtue ethics, servility is thus a vice ...
Lisa Tessman Associate Professor of Philosophy SUNY Binghamton, 2005
8
Moral Self-Regard: Duties to Oneself in Kant's Moral Theory
This rigidity follows from the fact that the duty to avoid servility is a perfect—and so exceptionless—duty: once it is clear to you that what you would be doing constitutes servility, you are bound not to do it.8 According to Kant, preserving the rule ...
Lara Denis, 2013
9
Kantianism, Liberalism, and Feminism: Resisting Oppression
Regardless of whether any particular case of servility is blameworthy, Hill thinks it is morally objectionable, “at least in the sense that it ought to be discouraged, that social conditions which nourish it should be reformed, and the like.”9 And ...
Carol Hay, 2013
10
Setting the Moral Compass:Essays by Women Philosophers
What, at bottom, makes servility wrong, Kant explains, is that it is a violation of the “prohibition against depriving [oneself] of the prerogative of a moral being, that of acting in accordance with principles, that is, inner freedom” through the ...
Cheshire Calhoun, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SERVILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term servility is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Dnevnik Sees Croatia Parade Issue Revealing Govt's Chaos and …
Dnevnik Sees Croatia Parade Issue Revealing Govt's Chaos and Servility. Ljubljana, 21 July - The daily Dnevnik describes on Tuesday the government's ... «STA - Slovenska Tiskovna Agencija, Jul 15»
2
US Spying on France's Government: NSA-French Flap Confirms …
By relations, of course, Time means US primacy and European servility. Time used ... This is to ensure those bent in servile obedience to Washington remain so. «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
3
Vladimir Putin on France and Europe: “NATO Member States have …
Vladimir Putin denounces, more and more explicitly, the servility of France and Europe towards the United States, whether in the case of wire-tapping French ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jun 15»
4
My Turn: Eversource wants, gets lawmakers' servility
On May 3, the Sunday Monitor published a piece by Danielle Allen of the Washington Post about questions of freedom and equality. In it she asks, “Can the ... «Concord Monitor, Jun 15»
5
The Age of Minions
The servility of Chris Matthews before Barack Obama — thrill up the leg and all — is nearly identical to that of Mark Morford, who argued for the San Francisco ... «National Review Online, Apr 15»
6
For Hillary Clinton, Excellence In Servility From The Lapdog Media
Non-Stop Gushing: Hillary Clinton is greeted by supporters at a Center for American Progress event Monday. View Enlarged Image. Bias: At an "Excellence In ... «Investor's Business Daily, Mar 15»
7
Don't They Ever Get Tired Of It?
There is something in the Democratic soul that revels in servility. I keep thinking of Nina Burleigh, who covered Bill Clinton for Time and famously remarked ... «National Review Online, Mar 15»
8
Netanyahu's Takeover Bid
That was a gesture of thoughtless servility, and a mistake that should not be repeated. The difference between George Washington and Benjamin Netanyahu ... «Huffington Post, Mar 15»
9
Hussein and Gaddafi Looking Better all the Time
But hand it to Bill Maher -- he isn't flinching in his take down of the PC left regarding their obsequious servility to all things Islamic. His latest smackdown ... «American Thinker, Feb 15»
10
Lipšic: Prijímanie väzňov z Guantanáma je prejav servility, prinesie …
„Považujem to osobne za prejav trošku zvláštnej servility. Ja som mal skúsenosť s tou prvou várkou väzňov z Guantanáma, ktorá prišla za prvej Ficovej vlády a ... «Aktuality.sk, Jan 15»

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