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Type Words
Synonyms defiance
Type of intractableness, intractability
Has types insubordination, obstreperousness
Derivation rebellious
Type Words
Synonyms insubordination
Type of resistance
Has types disobedience, contumacy, noncompliance
Derivation rebellious

Examples of rebelliousness

rebelliousness
Katrina Ellsworth shows daughter Emily's increasing iconclasm and rebelliousness.
From the chron.com
In her late teens, her rebelliousness played itself out on screen and in print.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Cynics may ask, where's the rebelliousness, the excitement, the joie de vivre?
From the independent.co.uk
Still, there's a little of rebelliousness and aggressiveness in him, he said.
From the fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com
This rebelliousness makes France, like its football team, particularly hard to govern.
From the economist.com
Within 16 or so months, her daughter had worked her rebelliousness through.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
This isn't because there's been an outbreak of rebelliousness in labs across the globe.
From the sfgate.com
With Kremlin funding drying up, regional governments are showing signs of rebelliousness.
From the washingtonpost.com
Garber talks about how its depictions of youthful rebelliousness have changed over time.
From the charlotteobserver.com
More examples
  • Defiance: intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude
  • Insubordination: an insubordinate act
  • Rebellion is a refusal of obedience or order. It may, therefore, be seen as encompassing a range of behaviors from civil disobedience and mass nonviolent resistance, to violent and organized attempts to destroy an established authority such as a government. ...