subordination
/səˌbɔːdɪˈneɪʃn
/noun [mass noun]
The action of subordinating or the state of being subordinate: the subordination of medicine to political expediency...
- Women in Venezuela have been conditioned for centuries to blame themselves and accept their subordination to men.
- As an educationist, her surmise is that literacy had failed to free women from their predicament of subordination.
- The power to wage war inherent in the authority of a government provides the necessary subordination of citizen to state.
Synonyms
inferiority, inferior status/position, secondary status/position, lowliness;
subjection, subservience, submission, dependence, servitude