Kadavergehorsam
German, noun[kaˈdaːvɐɡəˌhoːɐ̯zaːm]
Kadavergehorsam is spelled K-A-D-A-V-E-R-G-E-H-O-R-S-A-M (15 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 159,136th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kadavergehorsam is a German masculine noun meaning “blind obedience, fanatical or excessive loyalty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “bedingungsloser Gehorsam eines Gehorchenden gegenüber einem fremden Willen”.
What does Kadavergehorsam mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineblind obedience, fanatical or excessive loyalty
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. bedingungsloser Gehorsam eines Gehorchenden gegenüber einem fremden Willen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Kadavergehorsam
- Kadavergehorsams genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Kadavergehorsam?
- [kaˈdaːvɐɡəˌhoːɐ̯zaːm]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Kadavergehorsam in German?
Kadavergehorsam appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).