SUBMISSIVENESS Antonyms

• intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude

• a hostile challenge

• a defiant act

• the failure to obey

• the trait of being unwilling to obey

• superior development of one side of the body

• the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

• the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not

• the power or right to give orders or make decisions

• a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail

• freedom from control or influence of another or others

• the successful ending of the American Revolution

• defiance of authority

• an insubordinate act

• the failure to obey

• 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

• 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

• personal independence