'Unruliness' definitions:
Definition of 'unruliness'
(from WordNet)
noun
The trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline [syn: unruliness, fractiousness, willfulness, wilfulness]
Definition of 'Unruliness'
From: GCIDE
- Unruliness \Un*rul"i*ness\, n. Quality or state unruly. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'unruliness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- abandonment,
- anarchism,
- anarcho-syndicalism,
- anarchy,
- antinomianism,
- assault,
- attack,
- battering,
- butchery,
- chaos,
- confusion,
- contumaciousness,
- contumacy,
- criminal syndicalism,
- defiance,
- defiance of authority,
- disorder,
- disorderliness,
- disorganization,
- disruption,
- forcible seizure,
- fractiousness,
- immoderacy,
- incontinence,
- incorrigibility,
- indiscipline,
- indocility,
- indomitability,
- insuppressibility,
- intemperance,
- intractability,
- irrepressibility,
- killing,
- laxness,
- laying waste,
- licentiousness,
- looting,
- lynch law,
- massacre,
- misrule,
- mob law,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- nihilism,
- noncoercion,
- nonintimidation,
- obstinacy,
- obstreperousness,
- ochlocracy,
- onslaught,
- orneriness,
- permissiveness,
- pillaging,
- primal chaos,
- rape,
- rebellion,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- recalcitration,
- refractoriness,
- resistance,
- restiveness,
- revolution,
- riot,
- rioting,
- riotousness,
- sacking,
- shrewishness,
- slaughter,
- sowing with salt,
- stubbornness,
- syndicalism,
- tohubohu,
- turmoil,
- unconstraint,
- uncontrol,
- uncontrollability,
- ungovernability,
- uninhibitedness,
- unmalleability,
- unmanageability,
- unmoldableness,
- unreserve,
- unrestraint,
- unstrictness,
- unsubmissiveness,
- untamableness,
- violation,
- wantonness,
- wildness