submission
Synonyms:
compliance, conformity, obedience, subordination.
Related Words:
acquiescence, appeasement, assent, capitulation, deference, docility, humbleness, humility, malleability, meekness, nonresistance, passivity, prostration, resignation, servility, subjection, surrender, tractability, yielding.
Antonyms:
balkiness, contrariness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, insubordination, intractability, noncompliance, obstreperousness, rebelling, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, self-will, unruliness, waywardness, willfulness.
Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin submissiōn- (stem of submissiō) a letting down. See sub-, mission. —Dictionary.com. // First Known Use: 14th century. History and Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin submission-, submissio act of lowering, from submittere. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
compliance, conformity, obedience, subordination.
Related Words:
acquiescence, appeasement, assent, capitulation, deference, docility, humbleness, humility, malleability, meekness, nonresistance, passivity, prostration, resignation, servility, subjection, surrender, tractability, yielding.
Antonyms:
balkiness, contrariness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, insubordination, intractability, noncompliance, obstreperousness, rebelling, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, self-will, unruliness, waywardness, willfulness.
Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin submissiōn- (stem of submissiō) a letting down. See sub-, mission. —Dictionary.com. // First Known Use: 14th century. History and Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin submission-, submissio act of lowering, from submittere. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.