renitency

renitency
Synonyms and related words:
antagonism, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backlash, backwardness, challenge, clashing, collision, combative reaction, complaint, conflict, confutation, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, crotchetiness, cursoriness, defiance, demur, disagreement, disinclination, disobedience, dispute, disrelish, dissent, dissentience, distaste, firmness, foot-dragging, fractiousness, friction, grudging consent, grudgingness, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, interference, intractableness, kick, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, mutinousness, negativism, nolition, nonconformity, noncooperation, objection, obstinacy, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, passive resistance, perfunctoriness, perverseness, protest, reaction, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, recoil, refractoriness, refusal, reluctance, remonstrance, renitence, repellence, repellency, repercussion, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, resistance, revolt, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, slowness, stand, starchiness, stiffness, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, swimming upstream, tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity, tightness, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, unwillingness, withstanding

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  • renitency — index conflict, reaction (opposition), reluctance Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • Renitency — Renitence Re*ni tence (r? n? tens), Renitency Re*ni ten*cy ( te s?), n. [Cf. F. r[ e]nitence.] The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance. Sterne. [1913 Webster] We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • renitency — noun Date: 1613 resistance, opposition …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • renitency — See renitence. * * * …   Universalium

  • renitency — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The act of resisting: opposition, renitence, resistance. See RESIST …   English dictionary for students

  • renitency — n. 1. Resistance (of solid bodies to pressure), opposition, antagonism. 2. Reluctance, moral resistance, disinclination …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • renitency — ren·i·ten·cy …   English syllables

  • renitency — …   Useful english dictionary

  • renitent — renitency, renitence, n. /ri nuyt nt, ren i teuhnt/, adj. 1. resisting pressure; resistant. 2. persistently opposing; recalcitrant. [1695 1705; < L renitent (s. of renitens), prp. of reniti to resist, equiv. to re RE + nit(i) to strive, make an… …   Universalium

  • Renitence — Re*ni tence (r? n? tens), Renitency Re*ni ten*cy ( te s?), n. [Cf. F. r[ e]nitence.] The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance. Sterne. [1913 Webster] We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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