Why this word is great
VERNILITY — [Noun] A form of fawning or obsequious behaviour, specifically the ingratiating manner of a low-born servant or slave. From the Latin vernilitas ("servile behaviour"), from vernilis ("servile"), related to verna ("a home-born slave"). Unlike “servility,” which suggests a broad, spiritless subjugation, or “obsequiousness,” which denotes a general eagerness to please, vernility carries the specific, archaic scent of the household menial. It is the practised dip of the shoulder when presenting a tray, the eyes kept lowered yet acutely watchful, the laugh timed a half-beat too quick at the master’s jest—the meticulous theatre of a deference that is not natural but necessary, and thus all the more hollow. It is a servitude polished until the performance of submission becomes the only authentic self.