[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

compliance \compli"ance\, n. see comply.
   1. the act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand,
      or proposal; concession; submission.
      1913 webster

            what compliances will remove dissension? --swift.
      1913 webster

            ready compliance with the wishes of his people.
                                                  --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   2. a disposition to yield to others; complaisance.
      1913 webster

            a man of few words and of great compliance.
                                                  --clarendon.

   syn: concession; submission; consent; obedience; performance;
        execution; acquiescence; assent.
        1913 webster
see also:
comply 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

compliance
     n 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
see also:
conformity conformation abidance disobedience nonconformity complaisance 
compliancy obligingness deference submission 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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