disobedience

1. 1.

   the failure to obey

   Synonymsnoncompliance

   Antonymsobedience

   Broaderinsubordination

   Narrowercontemptcontumacy
2. 2.

   the trait of being unwilling to obey

   Antonymsobedience

   Broaderintractability

   Narrowernaughtiness

Other forms of disobedience

plural

disobediences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disobedience

What does disobedience mean?

disobedience means "the failure to obey". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disobedience?

disobedience has 5 syllables: dis-o-be-di-ence. The stress falls on "be". In IPA it is /ˌdɪsəˈbidiəns/.

What is another word for disobedience?

Close synonyms include noncompliance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of disobedience?

The recorded antonyms are obedience, obedience.

Is disobedience a common word?

disobedience is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with disobedience?

1 word rhymes with disobedience. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.