disobedience

C2 Topic:Abstract Ideas

US /ˌdɪsəˈbiːdiːəns/ UK /dɪs.əˈbiː.dɪəns/ See IPA manual

Freq #22187

Meanings

1

noun
Refusal to obey.

The teacher complained of the child's disobedience.
2

noun
the failure to obey
3

noun
the trait of being unwilling to obey

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Synonyms

1 noun · refusal to obey. contumacy rebellion

2 noun · the failure to obey noncompliance

Opposites

obedience

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Phrases (1)

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civil disobedience
deliberate refusal to follow a law as a form of protest

Adjective + noun

Etymology

From Middle English disobedience, dysobediaunce, from Old French desobedience. By surface analysis, dis- + obedience. Displaced native Old English unhīersumnes.

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