noun
- The disposition boldly to defy or resist authority or an opposing force: contempt, contumacy, defiance, despite, recalcitrance. See resist/yield.
- The quality or condition of being unruly: disorderliness, fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, unruliness, untowardness, wildness. See control/uncontrol, order/disorder, peace/conflict, resist/yield.
