2 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants. --E. Darwin. [1913 Webster] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 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
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