The failure to obey.

synonym: disobedience.

Roget 742: disobedience, insubordination, contumacy; infraction, infringement; violation, noncompliance; nonobservance etc. 773.    revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute [Fr.]; riot, tumult etc. (disorder) 59; strike etc. (resistance) 719; barring out; defiance etc. 715.    mutinousness etc. adj.; mutineering^†; sedition, treason; high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason; premunire [Lat.]; lese majeste [Fr.]; violation of law etc. 964; defection, secession.    insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro^†, sansculottes [Fr.], red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur; seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue; Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade; ringleader.    ... show more

Roget 764: refusal, rejection; noncompliance, incompliance^†; denial; declining etc. v.; declension; declinature^†; peremptory refusal, flat refusal, point blank refusal; repulse, rebuff; discountenance.    recusancy, abnegation, protest, disclaimer; dissent etc. 489; revocation etc. 756.    ... show more

Roget 489: dissent; discordance etc. (disagreement) 24; difference diversity of opinion.    nonconformity etc. (heterodoxy) 984; protestantism, recusancy, schism; disaffection; secession etc. 624; recantation etc. 607.    dissension etc. (discord) 713; discontent etc. 832; cavilling.    protest; contradiction etc. (denial) 536; noncompliance etc. (rejection) 764.    dissentient, dissenter; non-juror, non-content, nonconformist; sectary, separatist, recusant, schismatic, protestant, heretic.    refusal etc. 764.    ... show more