unruliness
n.
disobedience, state of being unruly, lawlessness, rowdiness
unruliness
Noun
1. the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
(synonym) fractiousness, willfulness, wilfulness
(hypernym) intractability, intractableness
(hyponym) contrariness, perversity, perverseness
Unruliness
(n.)
Quality or state unruly.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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unruliness
Synonyms and related words:
abandon, abandonment, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, antinomianism, assault, attack, battering, butchery, chaos, confusion, contumaciousness, contumacy, criminal syndicalism, defiance, defiance of authority, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disruption, forcible seizure, fractiousness, immoderacy, incontinence, incorrigibility, indiscipline, indocility, indomitability, insuppressibility, intemperance, intractability, irrepressibility, killing, laxness, laying waste, licentiousness, looting, lynch law, massacre, misrule, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, nihilism, noncoercion, nonintimidation, obstinacy, obstreperousness, ochlocracy, onslaught, orneriness, permissiveness, pillaging, primal chaos, rape, rebellion, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, refractoriness, resistance, restiveness, revolution, riot, rioting, riotousness, sacking, shrewishness, slaughter, sowing with salt, stubbornness, syndicalism, tohubohu, turmoil, unconstraint, uncontrol, uncontrollability, ungovernability, uninhibitedness, unmalleability, unmanageability, unmoldableness, unreserve, unrestraint, unstrictness, unsubmissiveness, untamableness, violation, wantonness, wildness
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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