Meanings
plural servilities
- countableuncountableThe condition of being servile.
1 more example
Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis.
1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 425
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian раболепие, сервилност
- раболепие (rabolepie)condition of being servile
- сервилност (servilnost)condition of being servile
Chinese Mandarin 奴性
- 奴性 (núxìng)condition of being servile
Czech servilnost, servilita
- servilnostcondition of being servile
- servilitacondition of being servile
Finnish nöyryys
- nöyryyscondition of being servile
German Servilität, Servilismus
- Servilitätcondition of being servile
- Servilismuscondition of being servile
- Speichelleckereicondition of being servile
Greek ραγιαδισμός, δουλικότητα
- ραγιαδισμός (ragiadismós)condition of being servile
- δουλικότητα (doulikótita)condition of being servile
- ανελευθερία (anelefthería)condition of being servile
Irish uirísle
- uiríslecondition of being servile
Italian servilismo
- servilismocondition of being servile
Japanese 隷従, 卑屈
- 隷従 (reijū)condition of being servile
- 卑屈 (hikutsu)condition of being servile
- 奴隷根性 (dorei konjō)condition of being servile
Latin servīlitās
- servīlitāscondition of being servile
Polish serwilizm
- serwilizmcondition of being servile
Romanian servilism, servilitate
- servilismcondition of being servile
- servilitatecondition of being servile
Russian раболе́пие
- раболе́пие (rabolépije)condition of being servile
Spanish servilismo
- servilismocondition of being servile
Swedish servilitet, underdånighet
- servilitetcondition of being servile
- underdånighetcondition of being servile
- krypericondition of being servile
Thai ความอ่อนน้อม
- ความอ่อนน้อมcondition of being servile
Cite this entry
servility. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/servility
“servility.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/servility. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “servility,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/servility.
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