fractiousness

Definitions of fractiousness
  1. noun
    the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
    synonyms: unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness
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    types:
    contrariness, perverseness, perversity
    deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
    wildness
    an unruly disposition to do as one pleases
    cussedness, orneriness
    meanspirited disagreeable contrariness
    type of:
    intractability, intractableness
    the trait of being hard to influence or control
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