REBELLIOUSNESSES Synonyms

• defiance of authority

• an insubordinate act

• the failure to obey

• the trait of being unwilling to obey

• disagreement; especially disagreement with the government

• an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict

• lack of harmony or correspondence

• a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs

• unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values

• failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior

• the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome

• resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

• a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

• the military action of resisting the enemy's advance

• (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

• the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents

• a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

• the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

• (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

• an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

• group action in opposition to those in power

• organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

• make revolution

• fill with distaste

• cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of