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| Main Entry: |
refractoriness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | assertiveness, disorderliness, fractiousness, heedlessness, impetuousness, imprudence, impulsiveness, indocility, intemperanc, intractability, intractableness, lawlessness, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, orneriness, perverseness, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recklessness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, waywardness, wildness, willfulness |
| Main Entry: | license |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandon, indulgence |
| Synonyms: | anarchy, animalism, arrogance, audacity, boldness, complacency, debauchery, disorder, effrontery, excess, forwardness, gluttony, immoderation, impropriety, irresponsibility, lawlessness, laxity, looseness, presumptuousness, prodigality, profligacy, refractoriness, relaxation, relaxedness, sauciness, self-indulgence, sensuality, slackness, temerity, unrestraint, unruliness, wantonness, wildness |
| Antonyms: | reason |
| Main Entry: | contumacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defiance |
| Synonyms: | contempt, disobedience, insubordination, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness |
| Main Entry: | disorderliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | fractiousness, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, roughness, rowdiness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, unmanageableness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | fractiousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | disorderliness, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, roughness, rowdiness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, unmanageableness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | indocility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, disorderliness, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, fractiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractability, intractableness, lip, muster*, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, wildness |
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| Main Entry: | intractability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, disorderliness, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, fractiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, indocility, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractableness, lip, muster*, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, wildness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intractableness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, disorderliness, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, fractiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, indocility, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractability, lip, muster*, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, wildness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | libertinism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | license |
| Synonyms: | anarchy, animalism, arrogance, audacity, boldness, complacency, debauchery, disorder, dissoluteness, dissolution, effrontery, excess, forwardness, gluttony, immoderation, impropriety, irresponsibility, lawlessness, laxity, licentiousness, looseness, presumptuousness, prodigality, profligacy, refractoriness, relaxation, relaxedness, sauciness, self-indulgence, sensuality, slackness, temerity, unrestraint, unruliness, wantonness, wildness |
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