compliancy

Willingness to comply

Compliancy is a rarely used variant of compliance, referring to the state of yielding to others' wishes or conforming to rules and standards.

While compliance dominates in both everyday and technical contexts—regulatory compliance, patient compliance—compliancy occasionally appears in older texts or when writers want a slightly more formal or abstract tone.

The organization's compliancy with industry standards was never in question.

obedience

submissiveness

Disposition to obey others

meekness · tractability · subordination · servility · passivity · dutifulness · yielding · conformity · agreeableness · pliancy

flexibility

adaptability

Ability to adjust readily

leniency · tolerance · adjustability · receptiveness · responsiveness · amenability · willingness · openness · suppleness · elasticity

conformity

uniformity

State of being identical

alignment · conventionality · orthodoxy · adherence · observance · harmony · groupthink · conventionalism · traditionalism · homogeneity

regulatory

standards

Accepted levels of quality

policies · requirements · protocols · procedures · guidelines · enforcement · certifications · accreditation · mandates · directives

Opposites
obedience vs. resistance

compliancydefiance

Open resistance to authority

disobedience · noncompliance · rebellion · insubordination · recalcitrance

agreeableness vs. hostility

compliancyhostility

Antagonistic disposition toward others

antagonism · enmity · animosity · antipathy · belligerence

flexibility vs. rigidity

compliancystubbornness

Refusal to yield

obstinacy · inflexibility · intransigence · intractability · rigidity

Phrases
Family

compliance, compliant, noncompliance, compliances, noncompliant, compliantly, incompliant, non-compliant

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