observance

The word “observance” has 3 syllables: ob-ser-vance

It's pronounced as /əbˈzɜːr.vəns/


What is synonym and antonym for observance?

In the thesaurus, “observance” has 88 synonyms and 33 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for observance along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for observance

  • abidance
  • accession
  • acknowledgment
  • acquiescence
  • acquittal
  • acquittance
  • adherence
  • advertence
  • advertency
  • advisement
  • amenities
  • apprehension
  • attendance
  • attention
  • awareness
  • care
  • carrying-out
  • celebration
  • ceremonial
  • ceremony
  • civility
  • cognizance
  • compliance
  • concern
  • conformance
  • conformity
  • consciousness
  • consideration
  • convention
  • custom
  • decorum
  • deference
  • discernment
  • discharge
  • ear
  • etiquette
  • eye
  • fashion
  • fidelity
  • form
  • formality
  • fulfillment
  • graces
  • grasp
  • habit
  • heed
  • heeding
  • honor
  • honoring
  • hyperawareness
  • hyperconsciousness
  • keeping
  • knowledge
  • liturgy
  • manners
  • mark
  • mind
  • mindfulness
  • mores
  • note
  • notice
  • obedience
  • observation
  • perception
  • performance
  • practice
  • practise
  • proprieties
  • protocol
  • recognition
  • regard
  • remark
  • respect
  • rite
  • ritual
  • rule
  • satisfaction
  • service
  • solemnity
  • standard
  • submission
  • surrender
  • thought
  • tradition
  • understanding
  • upholding
  • watch
  • way

Antonyms for observance

  • breach
  • brush-off
  • carelessness
  • challenge
  • contravention
  • defiance
  • delinquency
  • dereliction
  • disregard
  • flouting
  • forgetting
  • heedlessness
  • ignorance
  • ignoring
  • inattention
  • indifference
  • infraction
  • infringement
  • neglect
  • nonobservance
  • obliviousness
  • offence
  • offense
  • overlooking
  • rebellion
  • sin
  • thoughtlessness
  • transgression
  • trespass
  • unawareness
  • unorthodoxy
  • violation
  • wrong

Meanings of observance

  • noun
    1. The practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule.
    2. The custom of celebrating a holiday or similar occasion.
    3. Observation or the act of watching.
    4. A rule governing a religious order, especially in the Roman Catholic church.
    5. That which is to be observed.
    6. Reverence; homage.

Example Sentences

  • The religious observance of fasting during Ramadan is an important tradition for Muslims.
  • The observance of traffic laws is crucial for ensuring road safety.
  • The company's policy requires strict observance of deadlines for project completion.
  • The annual observance of Memorial Day honors the sacrifices of fallen soldiers.
  • The cultural observance of Lunar New Year is celebrated with family gatherings and traditional customs.

On this page you'll find 121 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to observance, such as: abidance, accession, acknowledgment, acquiescence, acquittal, acquittance, adherence.

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Related Words

abidance

  • accession
  • acquiescence
  • adherence
  • attendance
  • attention
  • ceaselessness
  • compliance
  • conformance
  • conformity
  • continuance
  • continuation
  • continuity
  • continuousness
  • deference
  • drawing out
  • durability
  • duration
  • elongation
  • endurance
  • enduringness
  • extension
  • heed
  • honor
  • keeping
  • lengthening
  • notice
  • obedience
  • observance
  • observation
  • permanence
  • persistence
  • prolongation
  • prolonging
  • regard
  • respect
  • stretching
  • submission
  • subsistence
  • surrender
  • survival
  • upholding

ear

  • advertence
  • advertency
  • advisement
  • appreciation
  • apprehension
  • attention
  • awareness
  • care
  • cognizance
  • concern
  • consciousness
  • consideration
  • discernment
  • discrimination
  • eye
  • grasp
  • hearing
  • heed
  • hyperawareness
  • hyperconsciousness
  • knowledge
  • mark
  • mind
  • mindfulness
  • note
  • notice
  • observance
  • observation
  • perception
  • recognition
  • regard
  • remark
  • sensitivity
  • taste
  • thought
  • understanding
  • watch

habits

  • accouters
  • accoutres
  • act
  • action
  • addictions
  • address
  • affectations
  • air
  • airs
  • alcoholisms
  • anatomies
  • apparels
  • arrays
  • attires
  • attitude
  • attributes
  • bag
  • bags
  • bearing
  • bedecks
  • bedights
  • behavior
  • beliefs
  • bents
  • breeding
  • builds
  • caparisons
  • carriage
  • characteristics
  • civility
  • cloaks
  • clothes
  • code
  • comportment
  • conduct
  • constitutions
  • convenance
  • convention
  • conventions
  • correctitude
  • correctness
  • costumes
  • course
  • courtliness
  • culture
  • customs
  • dealings
  • decency
  • decorum
  • deed
  • delivery
  • demeanor
  • dependances
  • dependences
  • deportment
  • deportments
  • dignity
  • dispositions
  • does up
  • dogmas
  • drapes
  • dresses
  • dresses down
  • dresses up
  • drills
  • eccentricities
  • enrobes
  • enswathes
  • equips
  • ethic
  • ethics
  • etiquette
  • expression
  • fashions
  • figures
  • form
  • formality
  • forms
  • frames
  • frocks
  • front
  • furnishes
  • garbs
  • garments
  • gentility
  • gets up
  • good grace
  • gowns
  • gravity
  • grooves
  • guise
  • habilitates
  • habituations
  • habitudes
  • haps
  • heroinisms
  • huddles
  • ideals
  • ideology
  • inclinations
  • integrity
  • invests
  • jackets
  • jog trots
  • joneses
  • kinks
  • management
  • manners
  • mantles
  • marks
  • mentality
  • mien
  • mind
  • mindset
  • mode
  • modes
  • monkeys
  • morality
  • morals
  • mores
  • morphinisms
  • nature
  • observance
  • oddities
  • order
  • orderliness
  • outfits
  • patterns
  • peculiarities
  • performance
  • physiques
  • policies
  • politeness
  • politesse
  • poses
  • practice
  • practices
  • practises
  • presence
  • principles
  • proclivities
  • properness
  • propriety
  • protocol
  • psyche
  • psychology
  • punctilio
  • quirks
  • regimens
  • regimes
  • respectability
  • ritual
  • rituals
  • robes
  • role
  • rotes
  • routine
  • routines
  • ruts
  • savoir-faire
  • scruples
  • seemliness
  • sets
  • shapes
  • singularities
  • social graces
  • speech
  • spirit
  • structures
  • style
  • style of living
  • styles
  • suits
  • swaddles
  • swathes
  • tact
  • tailors
  • talk
  • taste
  • tendencies
  • tenors
  • tenue
  • tics
  • toilets
  • tolerances
  • tone
  • traits
  • tricks
  • turns
  • underdresses
  • uniforms
  • usage
  • usages
  • uses
  • values
  • vests
  • vestures
  • way
  • way of acting
  • way of life
  • ways
  • wonts
  • wraps

habitude

  • addiction
  • affectation
  • affection
  • affinity
  • airs
  • appetite
  • aptitude
  • attribute
  • bag
  • beaten path
  • bent
  • bias
  • bone
  • characteristic
  • consuetude
  • convention
  • custom
  • daily grind
  • deportment
  • devices
  • disposition
  • drill
  • eccentricity
  • endowment
  • faculty
  • fancy
  • fashion
  • favor
  • flair
  • fondness
  • form
  • forte
  • genius
  • gift
  • grind
  • groove
  • habit
  • hang-up
  • idiosyncrasy
  • impulse
  • inclination
  • into
  • jog trot
  • kink
  • knack
  • leaning
  • like
  • liking
  • manner
  • manners
  • mark
  • matter of course
  • mode
  • mores
  • observance
  • oddity
  • one-sidedness
  • partiality
  • partisanship
  • pattern
  • peculiarity
  • penchant
  • pose
  • practice
  • practise
  • praxis
  • precedent
  • predilection
  • predisposition
  • preference
  • prejudice
  • procedure
  • proclivity
  • propensity
  • proprieties
  • quirk
  • regime
  • regimen
  • ritual
  • rote
  • routine
  • rule
  • rut
  • second nature
  • set
  • shot
  • singularity
  • speciality
  • specialty
  • style
  • talent
  • taste
  • tendency
  • tenor
  • tic
  • trait
  • trick
  • turn
  • usage
  • use
  • way
  • wont

keeping

  • abidance
  • abiding by
  • accession
  • accomplishing
  • achieving
  • acquiescence
  • adherence
  • administering
  • administrating
  • agreement
  • answering
  • arresting
  • attendance
  • attention
  • authority
  • averting
  • balance
  • battling
  • bearing
  • blessing
  • blocking
  • boasting
  • bridling
  • bringing about
  • bringing off
  • buffering
  • bulwarking
  • care
  • carrying on
  • carrying out
  • celebrating
  • cellaring
  • charge
  • checking
  • cherishing
  • claiming
  • co-directing
  • co-managing
  • codirecting
  • collaring
  • comanaging
  • command
  • commandeering
  • commanding
  • commemorating
  • committing
  • compassing
  • completing
  • compliance
  • concluding
  • condition
  • conducting
  • confiscation
  • conformance
  • conformity
  • consecrating
  • conserving
  • constraining
  • consummating
  • containing
  • contending
  • control
  • controlling
  • covering
  • curbing
  • custodianship
  • custody
  • defending
  • deference
  • detaining
  • directing
  • discharging
  • dominion
  • effecting
  • enjoying
  • enjoyment
  • estate
  • executing
  • fencing
  • fending
  • feting
  • fettle
  • fighting
  • filing
  • filling
  • finalizing
  • financing
  • finishing
  • footing
  • forfending
  • form
  • fulfilling
  • funding
  • gagging
  • garaging
  • governing
  • governorship
  • guardianship
  • guarding
  • guiding
  • hampering
  • handcuffing
  • handling
  • hands
  • hangaring
  • hanging on to
  • harboring
  • harmony
  • having
  • health
  • heed
  • hindering
  • holding
  • holding back
  • holding on to
  • honor
  • honoring
  • housing
  • hugging
  • impeding
  • inhibiting
  • interrupting
  • kilter
  • lauding
  • leading
  • maintaining
  • making
  • making good
  • making good on
  • management
  • managing
  • mastery
  • measuring
  • meeting
  • memorializing
  • micromanaging
  • mincing
  • minding
  • muffling
  • muzzling
  • nick
  • notice
  • obedience
  • observance
  • observation
  • observing
  • obstructing
  • operating
  • opposing
  • order
  • overlooking
  • overseeing
  • ownership
  • owning
  • packing
  • palisading
  • pass
  • patronizing
  • perfecting
  • performing
  • phase
  • picketing
  • picture
  • piloting
  • pocketing
  • possessing
  • possession
  • posture
  • power
  • practice
  • practise
  • praising
  • preservation
  • preserving
  • preventing
  • procurement
  • proprietorship
  • protecting
  • protection
  • pulling in
  • putting up
  • rank
  • redeeming
  • regard
  • regulating
  • remembering
  • repair
  • repositing
  • repossession
  • repressing
  • reserving
  • resisting
  • respect
  • restraining
  • retaining
  • retention
  • ruling
  • running
  • safeguarding
  • safekeeping
  • sanctifying
  • satisfying
  • saving
  • scene
  • screening
  • securing
  • setting up
  • shape
  • shelving
  • shielding
  • silencing
  • sinking
  • situation
  • smothering
  • solemnizing
  • sponsoring
  • squelching
  • stage
  • stage-managing
  • staking
  • standing
  • standing up for
  • status
  • steering
  • stewarding
  • stifling
  • stopping
  • storing
  • stowing
  • strangling
  • submission
  • superintendence
  • superintending
  • supervising
  • supervision
  • supporting
  • suppressing
  • surrender
  • swallowing
  • taking care of
  • taming
  • tending
  • treasuring
  • trim
  • trust
  • underwriting
  • uniformity
  • upholding
  • walling
  • ward
  • warding
  • warehousing
  • warring
  • watching
  • watching over
  • withholding
  • withstanding

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