2 definitions found From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: recalcitrance n : the trait of being unmanageable [syn: {refractoriness}, {unmanageableness}, {recalcitrancy}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 141 Moby Thesaurus words for "recalcitrance": 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
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