contumaciousness
21acquiescence — compliance, resignation (see under COMPLIANT) Analogous words: deference, obeisance (see HONOR): submissiveness (see corresponding adjective at TAME) Antonyms: rebelliousness or rebellion Contrasted words: insubordination, contumaciousness (see… …
22revolt — n revolution, uprising, insurrection, *rebellion, mutiny, putsch, coup Analogous words: insubordination, seditiousness or sedition, factiousness, contumaciousness or contumacy (see corresponding adjectives at INSUBORDINATE) …
23churlishness — n 1. rusticity, ruralism, agrarianism; pastoralism, pastorality, bucolicism; inurbanity, back woodsiness, provincialism, provinciality, yokelism, Sl. hickishness; hominess, homeliness, homishness, Inf. folksiness. 2. boorishness, loutishness,… …
24constancy — n 1. faithfulness, fidelity, fealty, devotion, devotedness, abidingness, attachment, allegiance, loyalty; ardor, zeal, eagerness, earnestness; trustiness, trustworthiness, dependability, reliability; truthfulness, honesty, integrity, honor,… …
25intractability — n 1. intractableness, indocility, unsubmissiveness, insubmission, incompliance, incompli ancy, uncooperativeness, nonconformity; stubbornness, obstinateness, obstinacy, pervicaciousness, pig head edness, mulishness, obdurateness, hard headedness …
26lawlessness — n 1. anarchy, anarchism, chaos; terrorism, nihilism, violence, destructiveness; reign of terror, ochlocracy, mobocracy, mob rule; rebellion, mutiny, insurrection, sedition, insurgency, revolt, uprising, revolution, riot. 2. crime, criminality,… …
27nonconformity — n 1. nonconformance, discon formity, discord, discordance, disagreement, non agreement; dissent, dissension, nonassent, dissidence, dissentience, recusance, recusancy, protest, opposition. 2. noncompliance, incompliance, nonobservance,… …
28obstinacy — n 1. inflexibility, immovability, stiff neckedness, Inf. hardcoreness; inexorableness, implacability, intransigence, intractability, unyieldingness; unmalleability, unpersuadability, uninfluenceability, unswayability, unpliability. 2.… …
29perversity — n 1. contrariness, contradictoriness, contradictiousness, Archaic. contrariousness, contrariety, contumaciousness, contumacity, contumacy, frowardness, seditiousness, refractoriness, querulousness; waywardness, disobedience, intransigence,… …
30stability — n 1. fixedness, permanence, solidity, sol idness, fixity, immovability, stableness; rest, repose, immobility, inertia, dormancy, inaction, inactivity, quiescence; balance, equilibrium, steadiness. 2. changelessness, unchangeableness,… …
