Synonyms of civil disobedience

civil disobedience

noun

as in rebellion

refusal to obey laws as a way of forcing the government to do or change something

In an act of civil disobedience, the family sent its tax money to an antiwar organization.

A student organization is encouraging civil disobedience as a way to get the university to change its policies.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rebellion
• defiance
• noncooperation
• disobedience
• insubordination
• recalcitrance
• refractoriness
• rebelliousness
• intractability
• unruliness
• contumacy
• obstreperousness
• waywardness
• balkiness
• willfulness
• obdurateness
• contrariness
• perversity
• tenacity
• stubbornness
• peevishness
• mulishness
• frowardness
• obduracy
• obstinacy
• obstinateness
• doggedness
• self-will
• pertinaciousness
• pertinacity
• tenaciousness
• hardheadedness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• amiability
• agreeability
• amenability
• subservience
• submissiveness
• subserviency
• slavishness
• deference
• trainability
• docility
• compliance
• submission
• subordination
• obedience
• dutifulness
• tractability
• subordinateness
• tractableness