servitude
State of enslavement
Servitude is the state of being enslaved or bound to serve another.
In its strictest sense, it describes slavery or forced labor: a life of servitude.
More broadly, it can mean any condition of subjection or lack of freedom: domestic servitude, indentured servitude.
In legal contexts, a servitude is a right that limits how property can be used, such as an easement allowing others passage across land.
Ownership of people
- enslavementForced human ownership
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- subjugationForcing into submission
- captivityState of being confined
thrall · indenture · peonage · chattel · shackles · chains · oppression · subjection
Strenuous, prolonged effort
compulsory · forced · unpaid · exploitation · sweatshop · conscription · indentured · apprenticeship
Yielding to another's will
- obedienceCompliance with authority
- subservienceExcessive willingness to obey
- deferenceYielding to another's judgment
- complianceAdhering to requirements
docility · meekness · subordination · humility · kowtowing · groveling · obeisance
slavery
Ownership of people
- enslavementForced human ownership
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- subjugationForcing into submission
captivity · thrall · indenture · peonage · chattel · shackles · chains · oppression · subjection · yoke
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
domestic · compulsory · forced · unpaid · exploitation · sweatshop · conscription · indentured · apprenticeship · workhouse
submission
Yielding to another's will
- obedienceCompliance with authority
- subservienceExcessive willingness to obey
- deferenceYielding to another's judgment
compliance · docility · meekness · subordination · humility · kowtowing · groveling · obeisance
vassal
Land-holding sworn subordinate
peasantry · villein · liege · suzerain · medieval · manorialism · fiefdom · tenure · demesne · homage
- Russian serfdomserfs, peasants, bondage, unfree labor, bound labor
- serfdomserfs, villeins, villeinage, thralls, bondage
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- slaverychattel slavery, enslaved, slave, enslavement, slave traders
- indentured laborindenture, bound labor, bondsman, labor contract, debt bondage
- oppressionoppression, tyranny, racism, repression, secret police
servitudefreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · autonomy · independence · liberation · self-determination
servitudemastery
Complete skill or control
dominion · lordship · sovereignty · command · authority
servitudesovereignty
Supreme independent authority
self-government · self-rule · enfranchisement · emancipation · liberation
- indentured servitudeContractual unfree labor for term