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Subservience vs Fawning - What's the difference?

subservience | fawning |

As nouns the difference between subservience and fawning

is that subservience is the state of being subservient while fawning is servile flattery.

As a verb fawning is

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subservience

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state of being subservient.

    • 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 .