subordination
nounUK /səˌbɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/ · CA, US /səˌbɔɹdəˈneɪʃn̩/
Etymology From Middle French subordination, from Medieval Latin subordinatio.
1
The process of making or classing (something or somebody) as subordinate.
- Sound logic, as the habitual subordination of the individual to the species, and of the species to the genus […]1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., published 1834:
2
The property of being subordinate; inferiority of rank or position.
3
The quality of being properly obedient to a superior (as a superior officer); this quality as a systemic principle of discipline within a hierarchical organization.
- Derived terms
- antisubordination, nonsubordination, subordinational, subordinationism, subordinationist
- Related terms
- hierarchy