recalcitrance (n.)
- antagonism
- antipathy
- aversion
- backlash
- backwardness
- challenge
- collision
- competition
- complaint
- conflict
- confutation
- contempt
- contradiction
- contrariety
- contrariness
- contumacy
- counteraction
- crankiness
- crotchetiness
- defiance
- demur
- despite
- deviation
- disagreement
- disinclination
- disobedience
- dispute
- dissension
- dissent
- distaste
- enmity
- fractiousness
- friction
- hostility
- incongruity
- inconsistency
- indisposition
- indomitability
- interference
- intractability
- intractableness
- irrepressibility
- kick
- negativeness
- negativism
- noncompliance
- nonconformance
- nonconformism
- nonconformity
- nonobservance
- objection
- obstinacy
- obstreperousness
- opposition
- originality
- orneriness
- perverseness
- protest
- reaction
- rebuff
- recalcitrancy
- recoil
- recusancy
- refractoriness
- refusal
- reluctance
- remonstrance
- repercussion
- repugnance
- repulse
- repulsion
- resistance
- restiveness
- revolt
- rivalry
- shrewishness
- slowness
- stand
- stubbornness
- sulk
- sulkiness
- sullenness
- unmalleability
- unruliness
- unwillingness
- wildness