Meaning of DISOBEDIENCE
| Pronunciation: | | `disu'beedeeuns
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- [n] the failure to obey
- [n] the trait of being unwilling to obey
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| | Synonyms: | | noncompliance |
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| | Antonyms: | | abidance, compliance, conformation, conformity, obedience, obedience, obeisance | | |
| | See Also: | | badness, contempt, contumacy, insubordination, intractability, intractableness, mischievousness, naughtiness, rebelliousness | |
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| | Definition: | | Disobedience
When Henry, the 17-year-old son in a happy family, accesses his mother`s e-mail, he discovers that she is having an affair. Ten years later, he tries to untangle the web of events that the discovery precipitates. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis`o*be"di*ence\, n.
Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or
prohibition.
He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open
disobedience. --Tillotson.
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| | Related Terms: | | abnegation, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, contradiction, cursoriness, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disinclination, disrelish, dissent, distaste, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent, grudgingness, holding back, indiscipline, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, insubordination, interregnum, intractableness, irresponsibility, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, lawlessness, license, licentiousness, mutinousness, mutiny, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, nolition, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance, obstinacy, opposition, perfunctoriness, power vacuum, rampant will, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recantation, refractoriness, refusal, rejection, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repudiation, repugnance, resistance, retention, slowness, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, thumbs-down, turndown, unaccountability, uncontrol, unenthusiasm, unrestraint, unwillingness, willfulness, withholding |
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