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Definition: SUBSERVIENCY |
SUBSERVIENCYNoun1. The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. |
Date "SUBSERVIENCY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1710. (references) |
"SUBSERVIENCY" is a common misspelling or typo for: subservience. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instrumentality | Noun: instrumentality; aid; subservience, subserviency; mediation, intervention, medium, intermedium, vehicle, hand; agency. |
Servility | Noun: servility; slavery; (subjection); obsequiousness; Adjective: subserviency; abasement; prostration, prosternation; genuflection; (worship); fawning; Verb: tuft-hunting, timeserving, flunkeyism; sycophancy; (flattery); humility. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "SUBSERVIENCY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SUBSERVIENCY" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SUBSERVIENCY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | alamaisuus (allegiance, subjection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Dienstbarkeit (easement, servitude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | támogatás (advocacy, aid, assistance, backing, countenance, encouragement, espousal, favor, help, lean, promotion, protection, sponsorship, subservience, subsidization, support, sustain), szolgai engedelmesség (subservience), megalázkodás (cringe, grovelling, prostration, self-abasement, subservience), kedvezés (favour, preference, preferment, subservience), függés (dependence, dependency, subservience, suspension), engedelmesség (amenability, duty, equipage, obedience, submission, submissiveness, subservience), elősegítés (fomentation, furtherance, promotion, subservience), célszerűség (expedience, expediency, subservience), behódolás (acquiescence, submission, subservience), alárendeltség (subordination, subservience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 事大 (subserviency to the stronger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じ い (epoch, era, land rent, period, subserviency to the stronger, the next era). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubserviencysay подчинение (conformation, conformity, dependence, subdual, subjection, subjections, subjugation, submission, submissions, subordination, subservience). (various references) sự quỵ luỵ (cringe, kotow, kowtow, subservience), sự phục vụ sự khúm núm (subservience), sự giúp ích (helpfulness, subservience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-i-n-r-s-s-u-v-y" | |
-3 letters: sinecures, universes. | |
-4 letters: becurses, brucines, censures, cursives, enuresis, incurves, insecure, inverses, scrieves, scurvies, services, sinecure, suberins, suberise, subserve, subvenes, universe, versines. | |
-5 letters: becurse, brucine, brucins, bruises, burnies, byrnies, censers, censure, cerises, ceruses, cervine, cruises, cursive, ensures, enviers, evinces, incurve, incuses, insures, inverse, rebuses, recuses, reissue, rescues, revises, ribeyes, scenery, screens, scribes, scrieve, scrives. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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