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servility

/səˈvɪ.lɪ.ti/US/sɚˈvɪ.lɪ.ti/

servility noun: the condition of being servile.

Noun

servility (countable and uncountable, plural servilities)

  1. The condition of being servile.
    • Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo...1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 425

servility meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

servility in Tamil

கொத்தடிமைத்தனம்

servility in Urdu

غلامی

servility in Bengali

দাসত্ব, চাটুকারিতা

servility in Malayalam

ദാസ്യം, അടിമവ്യവസ്ഥിതി
More languagesFewer languages
servility in Thai
ความอ่อนน้อม

Antonyms of servility

Forms of servility

pluralservilities

Origin of servility

From servile + -ity.

Questions about servility

What does servility mean?
Servility means the condition of being servile.
What is servility in Tamil?
Servility in Tamil is கொத்தடிமைத்தனம். See Servility meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is servility?
Servility is a noun.
How do you pronounce servility?
Servility is pronounced /səˈvɪ.lɪ.ti/ (UK).
What is the plural of servility?
The plural of servility is servilities.

Words near servility in the dictionary

  1. serviles
  2. servilest
  3. servilism
  4. servilisms
  5. servilities
  6. servility
  7. servilize
  8. servilized
  9. servilizes
  10. servilizing
  11. servin'

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Adapted from Wiktionary: servility (page history and authors); servility (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); servility (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); servility (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); servility (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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.

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