Synonyms of recalcitrance

recalcitrance

noun

as in rebellion

refusal to obey

punished her recalcitrance by taking away her driving privileges

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rebellion
• defiance
• willfulness
• rebelliousness
• disrespect
• intractability
• disobedience
• contrariness
• insubordination
• waywardness
• contumacy
• unruliness
• rudeness
• refractoriness
• stubbornness
• frowardness
• obstreperousness
• noncooperation
• balkiness
• civil disobedience
• obduracy
• obstinacy
• tenacity
• perversity
• pigheadedness
• inconsiderateness
• insolence
• impoliteness
• impudence
• doggedness
• pertinacity
• inconsideration
• peevishness
• tenaciousness
• ungraciousness
• hardheadedness
• self-will
• impertinence
• mischievousness
• naughtiness
• obdurateness
• discourteousness
• knavery
• pertinaciousness
• mulishness
• obstinateness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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