sycophancy

English

Etymology

sycophant +‎ -cy

Noun

sycophancy (countable and uncountable, plural sycophancies)

1. The fawning behavior of a sycophant; servile flattery; fawningness.
   • 2010, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, page 21:

     I have always been taken aback at the high number of people in whom an astonishingly high income led to additional sycophancy as they became more dependent on their clients and employers and more addicted to making even more money.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:flattery

Translations

fawning behavior of a sycophant; servile flattery

• Bulgarian: подлизурство (bg) n (podlizurstvo)
• Catalan: sicofància f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿諛奉承／阿谀奉承 (zh) (ēyúfèngchéng)

• Czech: podlézavost (cs) f, patolízalství n
• Dutch: pluimstrijkerij (nl), vleierij (nl)
• French: flagornerie (fr) f, flatterie (fr) f, lèche-culterie (fr) f, cirage de pompes (fr) m
• Italian: servilismo (it) m, sicofantia f
• Japanese: おべっか (ja) (obekka)
• Kazakh: жағымпаздық (jağympazdyq), жарамсақтық (jaramsaqtyq)
• Korean: 사대주의 (ko) (sadaejuui)
• Persian: تملق (fa) (tamalloq)
• Russian: лизоблюдство (ru) n (lizobljudstvo)