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unruliness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun unruliness has 1 sense
- unruliness(n = noun.attribute) fractiousness, wilfulness, willfulness - the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline; Array is a kind of intractability, intractableness
has particulars: contrariness, perverseness, perversity, wildness
Derived forms adjective unruly3, adjective unruly1, adjective unruly2
THESAURUS
unruliness
abandon, abandonment, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, antinomianism, assault, attack, battering, butchery, chaos, confusion, contumaciousness, contumacy, criminal syndicalism, defiance, defiance of authority, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disruption, forcible seizure, fractiousness, immoderacy, incontinence, incorrigibility, indiscipline, indocility, indomitability, insuppressibility, intemperance, intractability, irrepressibility, killing, laxness, laying waste, licentiousness, looting, lynch law, massacre, misrule, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, nihilism, noncoercion, nonintimidation, obstinacy, obstreperousness, ochlocracy, onslaught, orneriness, permissiveness, pillaging, primal chaos, rape, rebellion, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, refractoriness, resistance, restiveness, revolution, riot, rioting, riotousness, sacking, shrewishness, slaughter, sowing with salt, stubbornness, syndicalism, tohubohu, turmoil, unconstraint, uncontrol, uncontrollability, ungovernability, uninhibitedness, unmalleability, unmanageability, unmoldableness, unreserve, unrestraint, unstrictness, unsubmissiveness, untamableness, violation, wantonness, wildness
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