obedience
nounHow many syllables in obedience?
There are 4 syllables in the word obedience.How to pronounce obedience:
Definition of obedience:
- obedience (noun):
- an act or instance of obeying
- the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person.
- compliance in actions or behaviour with certain accepted rules, customs, or standards
Synonyms for obedience:
acquiescence
complaisance
compliance
conformability
conformity
deference
discipline
docility
dutifulness
obeisance
observance
respect
reverence
submission
submissiveness
subordination
subservience
surrender
tractability
truckling
yielding
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- ilio-psoas
- cuyahoga
- mademoiselle
- mechanism
- Yosemite
- effaceable
- Karnataka
- supposition
- underrated
- situations
- discerningly
- self-explaining
- rancorously
- incognito
- execrable
- calliope
- influencer
- parliament
- continuous
- organizer
- ignominy
- congregation
- palatitis
- untouchable
- theatrically
- assignable
- ratatouille
- dependably
- deceivable
- pitilessly
- everytime
- applaudable
- Aikaterine
- ever-changing
- calligraphy
- preparation
- nostalgia
- pedagogy
- delicately
- hellacious
- unsufficient
- incoercible
- debatable
- variegated
- beforehand
- disestablish
- demolition
- tantalizing
- inopportune
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