English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French déférence.
Morphologically defer + -ence.
Pronunciation[edit]
deference (countable and uncountable, plural deferences)
- Great respect.
- The children treated their elders with deference.
- The willingness to carry out the wishes of others.
- By tidying his room, he showed deference to his mother.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
great respect
- Bulgarian: почит (bg) f (počit)
- Catalan: deferència f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 尊敬 (zyun1 ging3), 敬重 (ging3 zung6)
- Danish: ærbødighed
- Dutch: eerbied (nl) m
- Finnish: kunnioitus (fi), arvonanto (fi)
- French: respect (fr) m, déférence (fr) f
- German: Ehrerbietung (de) m, Respekt (de) m, Achtung (de) f
- Greek: σεβασμός (el) m (sevasmós)
- Hungarian: hódolat (hu)
- Irish: ómós m
- Italian: deferenza (it) f
- Maori: kauanuanu, ngākau whakaute
- Polish: szacunek (pl) m, atencja (pl) f (dated), atentacja f (archaic)
- Portuguese: deferência (pt) f
- Romanian: deferență (ro) f
- Russian: уваже́ние (ru) n (uvažénije), почте́ние (ru) n (počténije), респе́кт (ru) m (respékt), почита́ние (ru) n (počitánije)
- Serbo-Croatian: pokornost (sh) f, uvažavanje (sh) n, respekt (sh) m
- Spanish: deferencia (es) f
- Swedish: aktning (sv) c, vördnad (sv) c, respekt (sv) c
- Turkish: hürmet (tr)
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the willingness to carry out the wishes of others