From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Compliance \Com*pli"ance\, noun [See {Comply}.]
1. The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.
What compliances will remove dissension? --Swift.
Ready compliance with the wishes of his people. --Macaulay.
2. A disposition to yield to others; complaisance.
A man of few words and of great compliance. --Clarendon.
Syn: Concession; submission; consent; obedience; performance; execution; acquiescence; assent.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
compliance
noun
1: acting according to certain accepted standards [syn: {conformity}, {conformation}, {abidance}] [ant: {disobedience}, {nonconformity}]
2: happy friendly agreement
3: a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others [syn: {complaisance}, {compliancy}, {obligingness}, {deference}]
4: the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another [syn: {submission}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
153 Moby Thesaurus words for "compliance": OK, Quakerism, acceptance, accession, accommodatingness, accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence, acquittal, acquittance, adaptation, adaption, adherence, adjustment, affability, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, agreement in principle, alacrity, allegiance, amenability, amiability, approbation, approval, ardor, assent, assentation, aye, benevolence, benignity, blessing, care, carrying out, cheerful consent, complaisance, concurrence, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, connivance, consent, consistency, conventionality, cooperativeness, correspondence, decency, deference, discharge, docility, duteousness, dutifulness, eagerness, endorsement, enthusiasm, execution, faith, favorable disposition, favorableness, fealty, flexibility, forwardness, fulfillment, gameness, general agreement, generousness, goodwill, graciosity, graciousness, harmony, hearty assent, heed, heeding, homage, humbleness, humility, keeping, kindliness, kindness, kneeling, line, loyalty, malleability, meekness, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance, nonviolent resistance, obedience, obediency, obeisance, obligingness, observance, observation, okay, orthodoxy, passive resistance, passiveness, passivity, performance, permission, pliability, pliancy, practice, promptitude, promptness, quietism, ratification, readiness, receptive mood, receptiveness, receptivity, reconcilement, reconciliation, resignation, resignedness, respect, responsiveness, right mood, sanction, satisfaction, service, servility, servitium, strictness, subjection, submission, submissiveness, submittal, suit and service, suit service, supineness, support, tractability, traditionalism, uncomplainingness, ungrudgingness, uniformity, unloathness, unreluctance, warm assent, welcome, willing ear, willing heart, willingness, yielding, zeal, zealousness
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