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DOCILITY Antonyms

There are 10 antonyms of the word docility. (opposite meanings)
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Best Opposite Words For DOCILITY

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defiance
nounn
noun

• intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude

• a hostile challenge

• a defiant act

disobedience
nounn
noun

• the failure to obey

• the trait of being unwilling to obey

insubordination
nounn
noun

• defiance of authority

• an insubordinate act

obstinacy
nounn
noun

• the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome

• resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires

opposition
nounn
noun

• 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)

rebellion
nounn
noun

• refusal to accept some authority or code or convention

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

recalcitrance
nounn
noun

• the trait of being unmanageable

resistance
nounn
noun

• 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

stubbornness
nounn
noun

• the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome

• resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires

wilfulness
nounn
noun

• the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline

Alternatives for DEFIANCE

Alternatives for DISOBEDIENCE

Alternatives for INSUBORDINATION

Alternatives for OBSTINACY

Alternatives for OPPOSITION

Alternatives for REBELLION

Alternatives for RECALCITRANCE

Alternatives for RESISTANCE

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