noun
- The condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan.
- usage: "all his actions were in subservience to the general plan"
- In a subservient state.
- synonyms: subservientness
- Abject or cringing submissiveness.
- synonyms: obsequiousness, servility
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