Word.ws English Dictionary

obediency

obediency noun: obedience, the quality of being obedient.

Noun

obediency (countable and uncountable, plural obediencies)

  1. Obedience, the quality of being obedient.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:obediency.
    • The second group, although probably relieved to a large extent from domestic work due to their economic capability to hire domestic service, is particularly affected by the fact that the rule of woman's obediency to men does not apply only to marriage and the family, […]1985, Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz, Iris M. Zavala, Women, feminist identity, and society in the 1980's: selected papers, page 71

Synonyms of obediency

Forms of obediency

pluralobediencies

Words formed from obediency

Questions about obediency

What does obediency mean?
Obediency means obedience, the quality of being obedient.
What part of speech is obediency?
Obediency is a noun.
What is the plural of obediency?
The plural of obediency is obediencies.

Words near obediency in the dictionary

  1. obedience
  2. obediences
  3. obedienciaries
  4. obedienciary
  5. obediencies
  6. obediency
  7. obedient
  8. obedient plant
  9. obedient plants
  10. obediential
  11. obedientially

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: obediency (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “obediency.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/obediency. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.