Obsequiousness

Definition: Obsequiousness

Obsequiousness

Noun

1. Abject or cringing submissiveness.

Date "obsequiousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1386. (references)

Synonyms: Obsequiousness

Synonyms: servility (n), subservience (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Courtesy	Obeisance; (reverence); bow, courtesy, curtsy, scrape, salaam, kotow, kowtow, bowing and scraping; kneeling; genuflection; (worship); obsequiousness; capping, shaking hands; Verb: grip of the hand, embrace, hug, squeeze, accolade, loving cup, vin d'honneur, pledge; love token; (endearment); kiss, buss, salute.
Flattery	Noun: flattery, adulation, gloze; blandishment, blandiloquence; cajolery; fawning, wheedling;Verb: captation, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft-hunting; snobbishness.
Obedience	Submissness, submissiveness; ductility; (softness); obsequiousness; (servility).
Respect	Homage, fealty, obeisance, genuflection, kneeling prostration; obsequiousness; salaam, kowtow, bow, presenting arms, salute.
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.

Crosswords: Obsequiousness

English words defined with "obsequiousness": Morigeration ♦ Obsequience, Obsequy ♦ rebarbative, repellant, repellent ♦ sycophancy. (references)

"Obsequiousness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Obsequiousness" is used about 4 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%	4	175,879

Language		Translations for "obsequiousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		servilizëm (assentation, cringe, servility, subservience), nënshtruarje, lajkatari. (various references)

Arabic		‏مذلة (affront, servility), ‏حقارة (baseness, insignificance, pettiness, servility, swinery, villainy, wretchedness), ‏تذلل (cringe, cringing, draggle, droop, drooping, grovel, lick his boots, subservience), ‏عبودية (bondage, captivity, enslavement, serfdom, servitude, slavery, subjection, subservience, thraldom, thrall, yoke). (various references)

Bulgarian		раболепие (cringing, servility), подлизурство (fawning, slime, sycophancy, toad-eating, toadyism). (various references)

Czech		podlízavost. (various references)

French		obséquiosité, servilité. (various references)

German		unterwürfigkeit (abjectness, servility, slavishness, submissiveness, subservience, subserviency). (various references)

Greek		δουλοπρέπεια (servileness, servility, slavishness, subservience). (various references)

Hebrew		התרפסות (bootlicking, fawning, ingratiation, kowtow, servility, subservience). (various references)

Hungarian		túlzott alázatosság (obsequy), szolgalelkűség (obsequy, servility). (various references)

Italian		ossequiosità. (various references)

Korean		아첨함. (various references)

Manx		ammyssaght. (various references)

Pig Latin		obsequiousnessay

Portuguese		obsequiosidade, servilismo (abjection, cringing, servility, subservience, toadyism), cumpridor (observant, pip, punctilious, responsible). (various references)

Romanian		servilism (compliance, flunkeyism, fulsomness, servilism), ploconire (cringe, kowtow). (various references)

Russian		раболепство (servility, toadyism), низкопоклонство (adulation, cringing, sycophancy, toad-eating), подобострастие (assentation, servility). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ulizivanje (sawder, sycophancy, toad-eating), ulagivanje (flattery, suck up, toadyism), poslušnost (docility, malleability, obedience), poniznost (humbleness, humility, subservience). (various references)

Spanish		obsequiosidad, servilismo (servility, subservience, sycophancy). (various references)

Swedish		inställsamhet (cringe). (various references)

Thai		การประจบสอพลอ. (various references)

Turkish		yaltakçılık (flunkeyism, flunkyism, servility), yağcılık (blandishment, blarney, butter, claptrap, greasiness, insinuation, oiliness, soapiness, sycophancy, taffy, toadeating, toadyism), dalkavukluk (adulation, blarney, butter, flattery, flunkeyism, flunkyism, slavishness, soapiness, sycophancy, toadeating, toadyism). (various references)

Ukranian		улесливість (oiliness, suavity), раболіпність, низькопоклонництво (cringe, sycophancy), підлесливість (courtliness). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự xun xoe, sự khúm núm (compliance, cringe). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	obsequi, obsequiis, obsequio, obsequium. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "obsequiousness": obsequiousnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "obsequiousness" (pronounced 'Ob*se"qui*ous*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-i-n-o-o-q-s-s-s-s-u-u"
	-4 letters: businesses, obsequious, obsessions.
	-5 letters: bossiness, obsequies, obsession, subsenses.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-e-i-n-o-o-q-s-s-s-s-u-u"
	+2 letters: obsequiousnesses.
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