SUBMISSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does submissiveness mean? 

• SUBMISSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun SUBMISSIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the trait of being willing to yield to the will of another person or a superior force etc.

  Familiarity information: SUBMISSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBMISSIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of being willing to yield to the will of another person or a superior force etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("submissiveness" is a kind of...):

obedience (the trait of being willing to obey)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "submissiveness"):

obsequiousness; servility; subservience (abject or cringing submissiveness)

passiveness; passivity (submission to others or to outside influences)

subordination (the quality of obedient submissiveness)

Derivation:

submissive (inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination)

submissive (abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant)