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submissiveness

/suhb-mis-iv/US // səbˈmɪs ɪv //UK // (səbˈmɪsɪv) //

顺从性,顺服性,顺应性,顺从

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants.
    • : marked by or indicating submission or a yielding to the authority of another: a submissive reply.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called, Informal, sub . the participant in a BDSM sexual encounter or relationship who is obedient, giving power and control to another participant.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounobedience

Examples

  • Being a stranger to Germany, Fazazi was, at the time, utterly dependent on her husband, and submissive to his views on where to go, and how to dress and behave.

  • “Ensure that you aren’t the first one to stray away from making eye contact—that’s a submissive gesture,” says Donaldson.

  • Many young women in the BDSM subculture find their way into a dominant role, whether coming from a submissive standpoint or not.

  • There are three types of cuckolded men: the submissive, forced bisexual, and the voyeurs.

  • They do it because they want women to be submissive, second-class citizen.

  • Demeanor: If your dog is really submissive, do you really want a bully?

  • She got into two serious dogfights with much larger male dogs, and showed zero signs of playing the female submissive.

  • Fashion—Do not be too submissive to the dictates of fashion; at the same time avoid oddity or eccentricity in your dress.

  • Instead of creating men, a perfect God ought to have created only docile and submissive angels.

  • Their profession requires vile and submissive slaves, who never have the audacity to reason.

  • A week passed thus: the count came twice to see me, and always preserved the same cold and submissive manner.

  • Folk made they submissive readily enough, and many country folk were thereon baptized.