submissive
adjective
inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient.
submissiveness
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a word derived from
submissive.
Example Sentences
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But his ease in doing so—the submissiveness of so many institutions here at home—swayed him into thinking the world would fall in line with similar pliance.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2025
Astoria offers a critique of the coffee woman’s domestic submissiveness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025
But a 2016 research paper on gastrodiplomacy did find that eating a meal together improved social interactions between those who dine together, not to mention fewer hierarchical displays of dominance and submissiveness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
He demands submissiveness and has no sense of playfulness.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2020
Mr. Pontellier had been a rather couteous husband so long as he met a certain tacit submissiveness in his wife.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
