complaisance, compliance, compliancy, obligingness, deference
(noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
Source: WordNet® 3.1
complaisance (countable and uncountable, plural complaisances)
The quality of being complaisant, amiable or agreeable.
Source: Wiktionary
Com"plai*sance`, n. Etym: [F. complaisance. See Complaisant, and cf. Complacence.]
Definition: Disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility. These [ladies] . . . are by the just complaisance and gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of our people. Addison. They strive with their own hearts and keep them down, In complaisance to all the fools in town. Young.
Syn.
– Civility; courtesy; urbanity; suavity; affability; good breeding.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 October 2024
(noun) a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor; “it was heated to evaporate the volatiles”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
