renitency

noun

Roget 719: resistance, stand, front, oppugnation^†; oppugnancy^†; opposition etc. 708; renitence^†, renitency; reluctation^†, recalcitration^†; kicking etc. v.. repulse, rebuff.    insurrection etc. (disobedience) 742; strike; turn out, lock out, barring out; levee en masse [Fr.], Jacquerie; riot etc. (disorder) 59.    ... show more

Roget 179: counteraction, opposition; contrariety etc. 14; antagonism, polarity; clashing etc. v.; collision, interference, inhibition, resistance, renitency, friction; reaction; retroaction etc. (recoil) 277; counterblast^†; neutralization etc. (compensation) 30; vis inertiae [Lat.]; check etc. (hindrance) 706.    voluntary opposition etc. 708, voluntary resistance etc. 719; repression etc. (restraint) 751.    opposites, action and reaction, yang and yin, yang-yin (contrariety) 14.    ... show more

Roget 323: hardness etc. adj.; rigidity; renitence^†, renitency; inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity^†.    induration, petrifaction; lapidification^†, lapidescence^†; vitrification, ossification; crystallization.    stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant; bone, cartilage; hardware; heart of oak, block, board, deal board; iron, steel; cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron; nail; brick, concrete; cement.    ... show more

Roget 325: elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, buoyancy.    rubber, India rubber, Indian rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber; neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna-S, plastic.    flexibility, Young's modulus.    ... show more

Roget 420: light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil; sunbeam, moonbeam; aurora.    day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; moonlight, starlight, sunlight etc. (luminary) 432; daylight, broad daylight, noontide light; noontide, noonday, noonday sun.    glow etc. v.; glimmering etc. v.; glint; play of light, flood of light; phosphorescence, lambent flame.    flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola.    spark, scintilla; facula; sparkling etc. v.; emication^†, scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration^†; flame etc. (fire) 382; lightning, levin^†, ignis fatuus [Lat.], etc. (luminary) 423.    luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion [Brit.], reflection; gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor; effulgence, refulgence; fulgor^†, fulgidity^†; dazzlement^†, resplendence, transplendency^†; luminousness etc. adj.; luminosity; lucidity; renitency^†, nitency^†; radiance, radiation; irradiation, illumination.    actinic rays, actinism; Roentgen-ray, Xray; photography, heliography; photometer etc. 445.    [Science of light] optics; photology^†, photometry; dioptrics^†, catoptrics^†.    [Distribution of light] chiaroscuro, clairobscur^†, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality.    reflection, refraction, dispersion; refractivity.    ... show more

Roget 603: unwillingness etc. adj.; indisposition, indisposedness^†; disinclination, aversation^†; nolleity^†, nolition^†; renitence^†, renitency; reluctance; indifference etc. 866; backwardness etc. adj.; slowness etc. 275; want of alacrity, want of readiness; indocility etc. (obstinacy) 606^†.    scrupulousness, scrupulosity; qualms of conscience, twinge of conscience; delicacy, demur, scruple, qualm, shrinking, recoil; hesitation etc. (irresolution) 605; fastidiousness etc. 868.    averseness etc. (dislike) 867^†; dissent etc. 489; refusal etc. 764.    ... show more

Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.

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