submissiveness
- n the trait of being willing to yield to the will of another person or a superior force etc.
- They may have thought that the economic collapse that had made Gorbachev wildly unpopular, coupled with a long Russian tradition of submissiveness to authority, would win the .
- She also teaches a kind of psychic judo for women to use on their mates: give in to get what you want, because submissiveness will bring "a strange but righteous power over your man.
- And the egg--in its wimpy little shell and its I'll-be-whatever-texture-you-choose- to-cook-me-into submissiveness--wants to be messed with.