Meaning | The trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline. |
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Synonyms | unruliness, willfulness, wilfulness |
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Narrower | contrariness, perversity, perverseness | Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline |
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wildness | An unruly disposition to do as one pleases |
Broader | intractability, intractableness | The trait of being hard to influence or control |
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Spanish | voluntariedad, voluntarismo |
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Catalan | voluntarietat |
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Adjectives | fractious | stubbornly resistant to authority or control |
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fractious | easily irritated or annoyed |