obedience

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsobeisance

   Antonymsdisobedience

   Broadersubmission

   Narrowertruckling
2. 2.

   the trait of being willing to obey

   Antonymsdisobedience

   Broadertractability

   Narrowersubmissiveness
3. 3.

   behavior intended to please your parents

   “their children were never very strong on obedience”

   “he went to law school out of respect for his father's wishes”

   Synonymsrespect

   Broaderfilial duty

Other forms of obedience

plural

obediences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about obedience

What does obedience mean?

obedience means "the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obedience?

obedience has 4 syllables: o-be-di-ence. The stress falls on "be". In IPA it is /oʊˈbidiəns/.

What is another word for obedience?

Close synonyms include obeisance, respect. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of obedience?

The recorded antonyms are disobedience, disobedience.

Is obedience a common word?

obedience is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with obedience?

1 word rhymes with obedience. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.