Synonyms and related words :
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