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Definition of Submissiveness
1. Noun. The trait of being willing to yield to the will of another person or a superior force etc..
Specialized synonyms: Obsequiousness, Servility, Subservience, Passiveness, Passivity, Subordination
Derivative terms: Submissive, Submissive
Definition of Submissiveness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being submissive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Submissiveness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Submissiveness
Literary usage of Submissiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"... and disabled from practising as a barrister.1 The submissiveness with which
the majority of the Commons for so many years bowed to the haughty words and ..."
2. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Philip Arthur Ashworth (1905)
"... and disabled from practising as a barrister.1 The submissiveness with which
the majority of the Commons for so many years bowed to the haughty words and ..."
3. Instincts in Industry, a Study of Working-class Psychology by Ordway Tead (1918)
"CHAPTER VII THE INSTINCT OF submissiveness OR SELF- ABASEMENT INDIVIDUALS In whom
the tendency to submit is strong are more numerous than those in whom the ..."
4. Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakspeare by Thomas Peregrine Courtenay (1840)
"Even the exception which I have noticed,J to his usual submissiveness, in his
peremptory refusal to hear excuses for Suffolk, may be traced to ..."
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