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say it: ri-ZI-stuhns
resistance is a noun meaning "the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with". It is pronounced /ɹɪˈzɪstəns/ — ri-ZI-stuhns. It carries 11 recorded senses.
the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
“he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens”
“despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead”
any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
the military action of resisting the enemy's advance
“the enemy offered little resistance”
military
(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
medicine
the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents
“these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog”
a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
bacteria
(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
psychiatry
an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
group action in opposition to those in power
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for resistance come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.