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    Synonyms and Antonyms of recalcitrance

    refusal to obey
    • punished her recalcitrance by taking away her driving privileges
    Synonyms of recalcitrance

    balkiness, contrariness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, insubordination, intractability, obstreperousness, rebellion, rebelliousness, refractoriness, unruliness, waywardness, willfulness

    Words Related to recalcitrance

    civil disobedience, noncooperation

    discourteousness, disrespect, impertinence, impoliteness, impudence, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, insolence, rudeness, ungraciousness

    doggedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, obstinateness, peevishness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perversity, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness, tenaciousness, tenacity

    knavery, mischievousness, naughtiness

    Near Antonyms of recalcitrance

    agreeability, amenability, amiability

    slavishness, submissiveness, subservience, subserviency

    trainability

    deference, docility, dutifulness

    Antonyms of recalcitrance

    compliance, obedience, submission, subordinateness, subordination, tractability, tractableness

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