The disposition boldly to defy or resist authority or an opposing force:
contempt, contumacy, defiance, despite, recalcitrance. See resistThe 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, order, peace, resist
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