resistance

I noun antagonism, assault, attack, battle, blocking, check, combat, confrontation, contention, contrariety, contrariness, contravention, contumacy, counteraction, defiance, disobedience, fight, hindrance, immunity, imperviousness, insubordination, insurgence, insurrection, interference, mutiny, noncompliance, nonconformance, obstinacy, obstruction, oppugnance, oppugnation, protest, rebellion, rebuff, recalcitrance, recusancy, refusal, reluctance, renitence, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, revolution, sedition, stand, strife, strike, struggle, unalterableness, unsusceptibility, unwillingness, unyieldingness, uprising, withstanding II index conflict, contempt (disobedience to the court), contention (opposition), contest (dispute), contravention, defiance, deterrence, disadvantage, disapproval, fight (battle), impediment, impugnation, mutiny, negation, opposition, protest, reaction (opposition), rebellion, rebuff, refusal, reluctance, revolt, struggle