<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the fact of serving in a subordinate position or role: There is no hierarchy, no dominance or subservience of any member, in this vision of the faith community.</li><li>a servile or excessively submissive quality or manner: Was I so weak that a child could reduce me to this fawning subservience—without will, without character?</li><li>the fact or quality of being useful, or the state of being used, to promote a certain purpose or end: Popular nationalists decried Irish subservience to British commercial interests, and promised to strengthen economic sovereignty.</li></ul>