servility
/səːˈvɪlɪti
/noun [mass noun]
An excessive willingness to serve or please others: a classic example of media servility...
- The attitude of deference and servility of the senators facing them was no less nauseating.
- He never regretted his lack of servility even though he lost the interview.
- In no other does the spirit of servility and boot-licking display itself so openly and shamelessly.
Synonyms
obsequiousness, sycophancy, excessive deference, subservience, submissiveness, fawning, toadyism, toadying, grovelling, cringing, unctuousness, oiliness, abjectness, abjection, cravenness, slavishness, humility, self-abasement
informal smarminess, sliminess, bootlicking
North American informal apple-polishing
British vulgar slang arse-licking, bum-sucking
North American vulgar slang ass-kissing
