recalcitrance n : the trait of being unmanageable [syn: refractoriness, unmanageableness, recalcitrancy]

English

Noun

1. The state of being recalcitrant.

antagonism, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backlash, backwardness, bad blood, challenge, clashing, collision, combative reaction, competition, complaint, conflict, confutation, contempt, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, contumaciousness, contumacy, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, cross-purposes, crotchetiness, cursoriness, defiance, defiance of authority, demur, despite, deviation, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, disinclination, disobedience, dispute, disrelish, dissension, dissent, dissentience, distaste, enmity, foot-dragging, fractiousness, friction, grudging consent, grudgingness, hostility, inaccordance, incongruity, inconsistency, incorrigibility, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, indomitability, inimicalness, insuppressibility, interference, intractability, intractableness, irrepressibility, kick, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, mutinousness, negativeness, negativism, nolition, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobservance, objection, obstinacy, obstreperousness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, originality, orneriness, passive resistance, perfunctoriness, perverseness, protest, reaction, rebuff, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, recoil, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness, refusal, reluctance, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repercussion, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, resistance, restiveness, revolt, rivalry, shrewishness, slowness, stand, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, swimming upstream, unconformity, uncontrollability, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, ungovernability, unmalleability, unmanageability, unmoldableness, unruliness, unsubmissiveness, untamableness, unwillingness, vying, wildness, withstanding