Noun subservience has 3 senses
  1. subservience - the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan; "all his actions were in subservience to the general plan"
    --1 is a kind of
    condition, status
    Derived form: verb subserve1
  2. subservience, subservientness - in a subservient state
    --2 is a kind of subordinateness, subsidiarity
  3. obsequiousness, servility, subservience - abject or cringing submissiveness
    --3 is a kind of submissiveness
    --3 has particulars: sycophancy
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