'Renitency' definitions:
Definition of 'Renitency'
From: GCIDE
- Renitence \Re*ni"tence\ (r?-n?"tens), Renitency \Re*ni"ten*cy\ (-te-s?), n. [Cf. F. r['e]nitence.] The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance. --Sterne. [1913 Webster]
- We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants. --E. Darwin. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'renitency'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- antagonism,
- antipathy,
- averseness,
- aversion,
- backlash,
- backwardness,
- challenge,
- clashing,
- collision,
- combative reaction,
- complaint,
- conflict,
- confutation,
- contradiction,
- contraposition,
- contrariety,
- counteraction,
- counterposition,
- counterworking,
- crankiness,
- crotchetiness,
- cursoriness,
- defiance,
- demur,
- disagreement,
- disinclination,
- disobedience,
- dispute,
- disrelish,
- dissent,
- dissentience,
- distaste,
- firmness,
- foot-dragging,
- fractiousness,
- friction,
- grudging consent,
- grudgingness,
- indisposedness,
- indisposition,
- indocility,
- interference,
- intractableness,
- kick,
- lack of enthusiasm,
- lack of zeal,
- mutinousness,
- negativism,
- nolition,
- nonconformity,
- noncooperation,
- objection,
- obstinacy,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- oppugnance,
- oppugnancy,
- passive resistance,
- perfunctoriness,
- perverseness,
- protest,
- reaction,
- rebuff,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- recalcitration,
- recoil,
- refractoriness,
- refusal,
- reluctance,
- remonstrance,
- renitence,
- repellence,
- repellency,
- repercussion,
- repugnance,
- repulse,
- repulsion,
- resistance,
- revolt,
- rigidity,
- rigidness,
- rigor,
- slowness,
- stand,
- starchiness,
- stiffness,
- stubbornness,
- sulk,
- sulkiness,
- sulks,
- sullenness,
- swimming upstream,
- tautness,
- tenseness,
- tension,
- tensity,
- tightness,
- uncooperativeness,
- unenthusiasm,
- unwillingness,
- withstanding