indocility
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Indocility \In`do*cil"i*ty\, n. [L. indocilitas: cf. F.
indocilit['e].]
The quality or state of being indocile; dullness of
intellect; unteachableness; intractableness.
[1913 Webster]
The stiffness and indocility of the Pharisees. --W.
Montagu.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "indocility":
antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, civil disobedience,
contumaciousness, contumacy, cursoriness, defiance, disagreement,
disinclination, disobedience, disrelish, dissent, distaste,
foot-dragging, fractiousness, frowardness, grudging consent,
grudgingness, incorrigibility, indiscipline, indisposedness,
indisposition, indomitability, infraction, infringement,
insubordination, insuppressibility, intractability,
intractableness, irrepressibility, lack of enthusiasm,
lack of zeal, lawbreaking, lawlessness, mutinousness, naughtiness,
nolition, noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation,
nonobedience, obstinacy, obstreperousness, opposition,
passive resistance, perfunctoriness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy,
recusancy, refractoriness, refusal, reluctance, renitence,
renitency, repugnance, resistance, restiveness, shrewishness,
slowness, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness,
transgression, uncontrollability, uncooperativeness, unduteousness,
undutifulness, unenthusiasm, ungovernability, unmalleability,
unmanageability, unmoldableness, unruliness, unsubmissiveness,
untamableness, unwillingness, violation, waywardness, wildness,
willful disobedience
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