The act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person.

synonym: obeisance.

Roget 743: obedience; observance etc. 772; compliance; submission etc. 725; subjection etc. 749; nonresistance; passiveness, resignation.    allegiance, loyalty, fealty, homage, deference, devotion; constancy, fidelity.    submissness^†, submissiveness; ductility etc. (softness) 324; obsequiousness etc. (servility) 886.    ... show more

Roget 749: subjection; dependence, dependency; subordination; thrall, thralldom, thraldom, enthrallment, subjugation, bondage, serfdom; feudalism, feudality^†; vassalage, villenage; slavery, enslavement, involuntary servitude; conquest.    service; servitude, servitorship^†; tendence^†, employ, tutelage, clientship^†; liability etc. 177; constraint etc. 751; oppression etc. (severity) 739; yoke etc. (means of restraint) 752; submission etc. 725; obedience etc. 743.    ... show more

Roget 725: submission, yielding; nonresistance; obedience etc. 743.    surrender, cession, capitulation, resignation; backdown^†.    obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion^†, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow, prostration.    ... show more

Roget 772: observance, performance, compliance, acquiescence, concurrence; obedience etc. 743; fulfillment, satisfaction, discharge; acquittance, acquittal.    adhesion, acknowledgment; fidelity etc. (probity) 939; exact etc. 494; observance.    ... show more

The trait of being willing to obey.

Dutch: gehoorzaamheid

Behavior intended to please your parents:
— Their children were never very strong on obedience.

synonym: respect.

Polish: obediencja