obedience

Synonyms

compliance, submission, subordination;

Antonyms

balkiness, contrariness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, insubordination, intractability, noncompliance, obstreperousness, rebelling, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, self-will, unruliness, waywardness, willfulness;

Near Antonyms

disrespect, impudence, insolence, rudeness;

insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, outbreak, revolt;

hardheadedness, mulishness, mutinousness, obstinacy, obstinateness, perversity, pigheadedness, stubbornness;

misbehavior, mischievousness, naughtiness;

dissent, dissidence;

Related Words

abidance, agreeability, amenability, tractability, trainability;

acquiescence, capitulation, obeisance, obsequiousness, submissiveness, surrender, yielding;

deference, docility, dutifulness, humility, meekness, modesty, servility, slavishness, subordinateness, subservience;

inhibition, repression, restraint, suppression;

control, discipline, order;