submissiveness

submissive | American Dictionary

submissive
adjective
us/səbˈmɪs·ɪv/
showing a willingness to be controlled by other people:
a submissive gesture

Examples of submissive

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In any culture there are people who are assertive, submissive, friendly, unfriendly, vibrant, mellow, and so on.
The fight generally comes to a quick conclusion when one of the combatants adopts a submissive posture and flees.
Their ideal notion of femininity was more distinct here and represented through the image of the 'submissive wife', who should obey and please her husband.
This is no submissive martyr-victim but a woman of physical power and presence.
Secondly, the closed list encourages party loyalty, a culture of conformism and submissive politicians.
It is threatening, not innocuous, eradicating the social presupposition that silent women are submissive, rather than "within themselves," speaking a subversive language of neutrality.
The morals and virtues that it ostensibly taught lauded behaviour that was submissive, particularly on the part of women and the young.
Discomfort can be relieved by submissive gestures, such as eye or gaze aversion.
On the average, women tend to adopt a more socially oriented and submissive pattern of behavior than men, who are predominantly taskoriented and assertive.
The submissive subgraph is not deleted from the chromosome, but is ignored in most calculations.
By romanticising the past, older people are urging the younger generation back to a submissive position.
When the husband dies, his power is far from diminished, because the submissive wife continues to conduct her life according to his expectations.
In such literature there is little place for women, who with few exceptions are no more than submissive spouses, rarely seen and never heard.
A string of epithets usually followed: children were timid, submissive, barely awake, lacking motivation, poorly nourished.
Evidence suggests that serotonin plays a similar role in the regulation of dominant and submissive behaviour in humans as well.
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