'recalcitrance' definitions:
Definition of 'recalcitrance'
(from WordNet)
noun
The trait of being unmanageable [syn: refractoriness, unmanageableness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy]
Synonyms of 'recalcitrance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- antagonism,
- antipathy,
- averseness,
- aversion,
- backlash,
- backwardness,
- bad blood,
- challenge,
- clashing,
- collision,
- combative reaction,
- competition,
- complaint,
- conflict,
- confutation,
- contempt,
- contradiction,
- contraposition,
- contrariety,
- contrariness,
- contumaciousness,
- contumacy,
- counteraction,
- counterposition,
- counterworking,
- crankiness,
- cross-purposes,
- crotchetiness,
- cursoriness,
- defiance,
- defiance of authority,
- demur,
- despite,
- deviation,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disagreement,
- disconformity,
- disinclination,
- disobedience,
- dispute,
- disrelish,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissentience,
- distaste,
- enmity,
- foot-dragging,
- fractiousness,
- friction,
- grudging consent,
- grudgingness,
- hostility,
- inaccordance,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- incorrigibility,
- indisposedness,
- indisposition,
- indocility,
- indomitability,
- inimicalness,
- insuppressibility,
- interference,
- intractability,
- intractableness,
- irrepressibility,
- kick,
- lack of enthusiasm,
- lack of zeal,
- mutinousness,
- negativeness,
- negativism,
- nolition,
- noncompliance,
- nonconcurrence,
- nonconformance,
- nonconformism,
- nonconformity,
- noncooperation,
- nonobservance,
- objection,
- obstinacy,
- obstreperousness,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- oppugnance,
- oppugnancy,
- originality,
- orneriness,
- passive resistance,
- perfunctoriness,
- perverseness,
- protest,
- reaction,
- rebuff,
- recalcitrancy,
- recalcitration,
- recoil,
- recusance,
- recusancy,
- refractoriness,
- refusal,
- reluctance,
- remonstrance,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repellence,
- repellency,
- repercussion,
- repugnance,
- repulse,
- repulsion,
- resistance,
- restiveness,
- revolt,
- rivalry,
- shrewishness,
- slowness,
- stand,
- stubbornness,
- sulk,
- sulkiness,
- sulks,
- sullenness,
- swimming upstream,
- unconformity,
- uncontrollability,
- uncooperativeness,
- unenthusiasm,
- ungovernability,
- unmalleability,
- unmanageability,
- unmoldableness,
- unruliness,
- unsubmissiveness,
- untamableness,
- unwillingness,
- vying,
- wildness,
- withstanding