obediency

English

Noun

obediency (countable and uncountable, plural obediencies)

1. Obedience, the quality of being obedient.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:obediency.
   • 1985, Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz, Iris M. Zavala, Women, feminist identity, and society in the 1980's: selected papers, page 71:

     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, […]

Synonyms

• obedience; obedientness

Translations

being obedient

• Norwegian: adlydenhet m, lydighet (no) m