All factiousness synonyms

noun factiousness

• disobedience — lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
• provocation — the act of provoking.
• spite — a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
• rebellion — open, organized, and armed resistance to one's government or ruler.
• confrontation — A confrontation is a dispute, fight, or battle between two groups of people.
• opposition — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
• contempt — If you have contempt for someone or something, you have no respect for them or think that they are unimportant.
• despite — You use despite to introduce a fact which makes the other part of the sentence surprising.
• stump — the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
• insurgency — the state or condition of being insurgent.
• summons — an authoritative command, message, or signal by which one is summoned.
• unruliness — not submissive or conforming to rule; ungovernable; turbulent; intractable; refractory; lawless: an unruly class; an unruly wilderness.
• insurgence — an act of rebellion; insurrection; revolt.
• temerity — reckless boldness; rashness.
• cartel — A cartel is an association of similar companies or businesses that have grouped together in order to prevent competition and to control prices.
• guts — the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it. Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
• insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
• call — a demand for redeemable bonds or shares to be presented for repayment
• dare — If you do not dare to do something, you do not have enough courage to do it, or you do not want to do it because you fear the consequences. If you dare to do something, you do something which requires a lot of courage.
• lip — either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech.
• impudence — the quality or state of being impudent; effrontery; insolence.
• boldness — not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possible danger or rebuff; courageous and daring: a bold hero.
• brazenness — shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
• gas — GNU assembler
• bravado — Bravado is an appearance of courage or confidence that someone shows in order to impress other people.
• perversity — the state or quality of being perverse.
• contrariness — opposite in nature or character; diametrically or mutually opposed: contrary to fact; contrary propositions.
• recalcitrance — resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
• effrontery — shameless or impudent boldness; barefaced audacity: She had the effrontery to ask for two free samples.
• contumacy — obstinate and wilful rebelliousness or resistance to authority; insubordination; disobedience
• affront — If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it.
• sass — impudent or disrespectful back talk: Both parents refuse to take any sass from their kids.
• muster — to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
• challenge — A challenge is something new and difficult which requires great effort and determination.
• revolt — to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny: to revolt against the present government.
• order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
• audacity — Audacity is audacious behaviour.
• command — If someone in authority commands you to do something, they tell you that you must do it.
• insolence — contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech.
• rebelliousness — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
• disregard — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
• enjoinder — A prohibition ordered by an injunction.
• disorderliness — The state or quality of being disorderly.
• defiance — Defiance is behaviour or an attitude which shows that you are not willing to obey someone.
• big talk — bragging or boasting talk
• defy — If you defy someone or something that is trying to make you behave in a particular way, you refuse to obey them and behave in that way.
• hot air — empty, exaggerated, or pretentious talk or writing: His report on the company's progress was just so much hot air.
• impugnment — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
• fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
• intractability — not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate: an intractable disposition.