- recalcitrance
- Synonyms and related words:antagonism, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backlash, backwardness, bad blood, challenge, clashing, collision, combative reaction, competition, complaint, conflict, confutation, contempt, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, contumaciousness, contumacy, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, cross-purposes, crotchetiness, cursoriness, defiance, defiance of authority, demur, despite, deviation, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, disinclination, disobedience, dispute, disrelish, dissension, dissent, dissentience, distaste, enmity, foot-dragging, fractiousness, friction, grudging consent, grudgingness, hostility, inaccordance, incongruity, inconsistency, incorrigibility, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, indomitability, inimicalness, insuppressibility, interference, intractability, intractableness, irrepressibility, kick, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, mutinousness, negativeness, negativism, nolition, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobservance, objection, obstinacy, obstreperousness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, originality, orneriness, passive resistance, perfunctoriness, perverseness, protest, reaction, rebuff, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, recoil, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness, refusal, reluctance, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repercussion, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, resistance, restiveness, revolt, rivalry, shrewishness, slowness, stand, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, swimming upstream, unconformity, uncontrollability, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, ungovernability, unmalleability, unmanageability, unmoldableness, unruliness, unsubmissiveness, untamableness, unwillingness, vying, wildness, withstanding
Moby Thesaurus. Grady Ward. 1996.