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Fawning vs Obsequiousness - What's the difference?

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Fawning is a related term of obsequiousness.


As nouns the difference between fawning and obsequiousness

is that fawning is servile flattery while obsequiousness is the quality of being obsequious; servile compliance.

As a verb fawning

is .

fawning

English

Verb

(head)
  • *
    • , title=The Mirror and the Lamp , chapter=2 citation , passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • servile flattery
  • * (Hannah More)
    • Xantippus found his ruin ere it reached him, / Lurking behind your honours and rewards; / Found it in your feigned courtesies and fawnings .

    obsequiousness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • the quality of being obsequious; servile compliance