'Indocility' definitions:
Definition of 'Indocility'
From: GCIDE
- Indocility \In`do*cil"i*ty\, n. [L. indocilitas: cf. F. indocilit['e].] The quality or state of being indocile; dullness of intellect; unteachableness; intractableness. [1913 Webster]
- The stiffness and indocility of the Pharisees. --W. Montagu. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'indocility'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- antipathy,
- averseness,
- aversion,
- backwardness,
- civil disobedience,
- contumaciousness,
- contumacy,
- cursoriness,
- defiance,
- disagreement,
- disinclination,
- disobedience,
- disrelish,
- dissent,
- distaste,
- foot-dragging,
- fractiousness,
- frowardness,
- grudging consent,
- grudgingness,
- incorrigibility,
- indiscipline,
- indisposedness,
- indisposition,
- indomitability,
- infraction,
- infringement,
- insubordination,
- insuppressibility,
- intractability,
- intractableness,
- irrepressibility,
- lack of enthusiasm,
- lack of zeal,
- lawbreaking,
- lawlessness,
- mutinousness,
- naughtiness,
- nolition,
- noncompliance,
- nonconformity,
- noncooperation,
- nonobedience,
- obstinacy,
- obstreperousness,
- opposition,
- passive resistance,
- perfunctoriness,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- recusancy,
- refractoriness,
- refusal,
- reluctance,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repugnance,
- resistance,
- restiveness,
- shrewishness,
- slowness,
- stubbornness,
- sulk,
- sulkiness,
- sulks,
- sullenness,
- transgression,
- uncontrollability,
- uncooperativeness,
- unduteousness,
- undutifulness,
- unenthusiasm,
- ungovernability,
- unmalleability,
- unmanageability,
- unmoldableness,
- unruliness,
- unsubmissiveness,
- untamableness,
- unwillingness,
- violation,
- waywardness,
- wildness,
- willful disobedience