n.

1. The act or practice of observing or complying with a law, custom, command, or rule.
2. The act or custom of keeping or celebrating a holiday or other ritual occasion.
3. A customary rite or ceremony.
4. The act of watching; observation: “Consider how much intellect was needed in the architect, and how much observance of nature” (John Ruskin).
5. Roman Catholic Church. The rule governing a religious order.

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noun

1. An act of willingly carrying out the wishes of others: compliance, obedience. See resist/yield.
2. The act of observing a day or an event with ceremonies: celebration, commemoration. See remember/forget.
3. A formal act or set of acts prescribed by ritual: ceremonial, ceremony, liturgy, office, rite, ritual, service. See ritual.
4. The act of noting, observing, or taking into account: attention, cognizance, espial, heed, mark, note, notice, observation, regard, remark. See knowledge/ignorance, see/not see.
5. The act of observing, often for an extended time: observation, scrutiny, watch. See awareness/unawareness, see/not see.

n

Definition: attention to, knowledge of something
Antonyms: carelessness, disregard, heedlessness, inattention, neglect, thoughtlessness

n

Definition: ceremony, rite
Antonyms: unorthodoxy

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The noun has 4 meanings:

Meaning #1: the act of observing; taking a patient look
  Synonyms: observation, watching

Meaning #2: a formal event performed on a special occasion
  Synonyms: ceremony, ceremonial, ceremonial occasion

Meaning #3: the act of noticing or paying attention
  Synonyms: notice, observation

Meaning #4: conformity with law or custom or practice etc.
  Synonym: honoring
  Antonym: nonobservance (meaning #1)

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - overholdelse, iagttagelse, helligholdelse

Nederlands (Dutch)
inachtneming, het zich houden aan, ceremonie, eerbied

Français (French)
n. - respect, observance, observation, célébration

Deutsch (German)
n. - Befolgung, Einhaltung, Regel

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (πιστή) τήρηση, κανόνας, τύπος, εθιμοτυπία

Italiano (Italian)
osservanza, rispetto, rito, regola, l'osservare, ossequio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - observância (f)

Русский (Russian)
соблюдение

Español (Spanish)
n. - observancia, cumplimiento, acatamiento

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - iakttagande, efterlevnad, ceremoni

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
遵守, 惯例, 仪式

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 遵守, 慣例, 儀式

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 준수, 의식, 종교 의식전

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 遵守, 習慣, 慣例, 儀式

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مراقبه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שמירה על החוק או המנהג, טקס, הקפדה, קיום מצוות, פעולה פולחנית‬

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