Synonyms and Antonyms of obedience
1
a bending to the authority or control of another
- the drill sergeant demanded complete and unquestioning obedience from the recruits
abidance, agreeability, amenability, teachableness, tractability, tractableness, trainability
acquiescence, capitulation, obeisance, obsequiousness, submissiveness, surrender, yielding
deference, docility, dutifulness, humility, meekness, modesty, servility, slavishness, subordinateness, subservience, subserviency
inhibition, repression, restraint, suppression
control, discipline, dutifulness, order
noncooperation, recusancy
disrespect, impudence, insolence, rudeness
insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, outbreak, revolt
hardheadedness, mulishness, mutinousness, obstinacy, obstinateness, perversity, pigheadedness, stubbornness
misbehavior, mischievousness, naughtiness
dissent, dissidence
balkiness, contrariness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, insubordination, intractability, noncompliance, obstreperousness, rebelling, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, self-will, unruliness, waywardness, willfulness
2
a readiness or willingness to yield to the wishes of others
- the cowardly obedience with which the dictator's henchmen followed his every command
amenability, amiability, complaisance, good-naturedness
obsequiousness, servility, slavishness, subservience, subserviency
conformity
cooperativeness, receptiveness, receptivity
humoring, indulgence
acceptance, assent, consent
capitulation, submission, surrender
affability, amicability, congeniality, cordiality, friendliness, geniality, sociability
3
the following of a custom, rule, or law
- expectations of strict obedience to the guidelines were soon dashed
deference, honor, regard, respect, upholding
accession, acquiescence, submission, surrender
attendance, attention, heed, notice
brush-off, disregard, ignoring
delinquency, dereliction, forgetting, neglect, overlooking
offense (or offence), sin, wrong
challenge, defiance, flouting, rebellion
