subservience   (Sound)

The noun subservience has 3 senses

• subservience -- (the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan; "all his actions were in subservience to the general plan")


• subservience, subservientness -- (in a subservient state)


• obsequiousness, servility, subservience -- (abject or cringing submissiveness)