'Disobedience' definitions:
Definition of 'disobedience'
(from WordNet)
noun
The failure to obey [syn: disobedience, noncompliance] [ant: abidance, compliance, conformation, conformity, obedience, obeisance]
noun
The trait of being unwilling to obey [ant: obedience]
Definition of 'Disobedience'
From: GCIDE
- Disobedience \Dis`o*be"di*ence\, n. Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition. [1913 Webster]
- He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'disobedience'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnegation,
- antipathy,
- averseness,
- aversion,
- backwardness,
- contradiction,
- cursoriness,
- declension,
- declination,
- declinature,
- declining,
- denial,
- deprivation,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- disinclination,
- disrelish,
- dissent,
- distaste,
- foot-dragging,
- fractiousness,
- grudging consent,
- grudgingness,
- holding back,
- indiscipline,
- indisposedness,
- indisposition,
- indocility,
- insubordination,
- interregnum,
- intractableness,
- irresponsibility,
- lack of enthusiasm,
- lack of zeal,
- lawlessness,
- license,
- licentiousness,
- mutinousness,
- mutiny,
- nay,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- nix,
- no,
- nolition,
- nonacceptance,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonobservance,
- obstinacy,
- opposition,
- perfunctoriness,
- power vacuum,
- rampant will,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- recantation,
- refractoriness,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- reluctance,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repudiation,
- repugnance,
- resistance,
- retention,
- slowness,
- stubbornness,
- sulk,
- sulkiness,
- sulks,
- sullenness,
- thumbs-down,
- turndown,
- unaccountability,
- uncontrol,
- unenthusiasm,
- unrestraint,
- unwillingness,
- willfulness,
- withholding