renitency

Renitence \Re*ni"tence\ (r?-n?"tens), Renitency \Re*ni"ten*cy\
   (-te-s?), n. [Cf. F. r['e]nitence.]
   The state or quality of being renitent; resistance;
   reluctance. --Sterne.
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         We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and
         irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of
         plants.                                  --E. Darwin.
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102 Moby Thesaurus words for "renitency":
      antagonism, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backlash,
      backwardness, challenge, clashing, collision, combative reaction,
      complaint, conflict, confutation, contradiction, contraposition,
      contrariety, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking,
      crankiness, crotchetiness, cursoriness, defiance, demur,
      disagreement, disinclination, disobedience, dispute, disrelish,
      dissent, dissentience, distaste, firmness, foot-dragging,
      fractiousness, friction, grudging consent, grudgingness,
      indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, interference,
      intractableness, kick, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal,
      mutinousness, negativism, nolition, nonconformity, noncooperation,
      objection, obstinacy, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy,
      passive resistance, perfunctoriness, perverseness, protest,
      reaction, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration,
      recoil, refractoriness, refusal, reluctance, remonstrance,
      renitence, repellence, repellency, repercussion, repugnance,
      repulse, repulsion, resistance, revolt, rigidity, rigidness, rigor,
      slowness, stand, starchiness, stiffness, stubbornness, sulk,
      sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, swimming upstream, tautness,
      tenseness, tension, tensity, tightness, uncooperativeness,
      unenthusiasm, unwillingness, withstanding