SUBVERSIVENESS Synonyms

• the failure to obey

• the trait of being unwilling to obey

• disagreement; especially disagreement with the government

• defiance of authority

• an insubordinate act

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

• open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)

• engage in a mutiny against an authority

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

• the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected

• the relation between opposed entities

• the act of hostile groups opposing each other

• a contestant that you are matched against

• a body of people united in opposing something

• a direction opposite to another

• an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)

• intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude

• an insubordinate act

• 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

• a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving

• the overthrow of a government by those who are governed

• a single complete turn (axial or orbital)

• an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government

• destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity

• the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government

• disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior

• a crime that undermines the offender's government

• disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior

• an act of deliberate betrayal