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deferencenoun a readiness or willingness to yield to the wishes of othersthe sycophantic deference with which the hotel treats celebrity guests acquiescence, biddability, compliance, compliancy, docility, obedience, submissiveness amenability, amiability, complaisance, good-naturednessobsequiousness, servility, slavishness, subservience, subserviencyconformitycooperativeness, receptiveness, receptivityhumoring, indulgenceacceptance, assent, consentcapitulation, submission, surrenderaffability, amicability, congeniality, cordiality, friendliness, geniality, sociability defiance, disobedience, intractability, recalcitrance animosity, antipathy, enmity, hostility, ill will honor, homage, reverence, deference mean respect and esteem shown to another.honor may apply to the recognition of one's right to great respect or to any expression of such recognition.the nomination is an honor homage adds the implication of accompanying praise.paying homage to Shakespeare reverence implies profound respect mingled with love, devotion, or awe.great reverence for my father deference implies a yielding or submitting to another's judgment or preference out of respect or reverence.showed no deference to their elders in 1660 |