Dictionary Definition
obedience
Noun
1 the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive
behavior with respect to another person [syn: obeisance] [ant: disobedience]
2 the trait of being willing to obey [ant:
disobedience]
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" [syn: respect]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- The quality of being obedient.
- Obedience is essential in any army.
Translations
quality of being obedient
- Albanian: bindje
- Arabic:
- Bosnian: poslušnost
- Bulgarian: подчинение (podčinenie)
- Chinese: 百依百顺 (bǎiyībǎishùn)
- Croatian: pokornost
- Czech: poslušnost
- Dutch: gehoorzaamheid
- Esperanto: obeemo
- Estonian: sõnakuulelikkus
- Finnish: kuuliaisuus
- French: obéissance
- Georgian: მორჩილი (morč’ili)
- German: Gehorsam
- Greek: υπακοή (ipakoí)
- Hebrew: צַיְתָנוּת (tzaytanut)
- Hindi: agya palana, pharmabaradari
- Hungarian: engedelmesség
- Indonesian: kepatuhan
- Irish: umhlaíocht
- Italian: obbedienza
- Japanese: 従順 (じゅうじゅん) (jūjun)
- Korean: 복종 (bokjong)
- Latvian: paklausība
- Mongolian: дуулгавартай байдал (duulgavartay baydal)
- Norwegian: lydighet
- Persian: (râmi)
- Polish: posłuszeństwo
- Portuguese: obediência
- Romanian: ascultare
- Russian: послушание (poslušánije)
- Serbian: покорност (pokornost)
- Slovak: poslušnosť
- Spanish: obediencia
- Swahili: taa
- Swedish: lydnad
- Tagalog: pagsunod
- Telugu: విధేయత (vidhaeyata)
- Thai: (gaan chêua fang)
- Turkish: itaat
- Ukrainian: покірність (pokírnist’)
- Uyghur: itaet
- Vietnamese: sự nghe lời
- Welsh: ufudd-dod
- Yiddish: פֿאָלגן (folgn)
- Yoruba: igboran
Extensive Definition
The term Obedience can refer to:
- Obedience (human behavior)
- Obedience as an evangelical counsel
- Obedience training for dogs
- Obedience trial, a dog sport
- Obedience Plant is another name for the herb Arrowroot.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Quakerism, acceptance, accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence, adaptability, adaptation, adaption, adjustment, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, amenability, assent, complaisance, compliance, conformance, conformation
other-direction, conformity, congruity, consent, consistency, conventionality,
correspondence,
deference, docility, dutifulness, flexibility, harmony, homage, humbleness, humility, keeping, kneeling, line, malleability, meekness, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance, nonviolent
resistance, obeisance,
observance, orthodoxy, passive resistance,
passiveness,
passivity, pliancy, quietism, reconcilement, reconciliation, resignation, resignedness, respect, respectfulness, strictness, subjection, submission, submissiveness, submittal, subservience, supineness, tractability, traditionalism, uncomplainingness,
uniformity, yielding