Synonyms of the word resistance


RESISTANCEACTION - CONDITION - DEADNESS - IMMUNITY - IMPEDANCE - INVOLUNTARINESS - OPPOSITION - RESISTIVITY - RESISTOR - STATUS - UNDERGROUND - UNRESPONSIVENESS - UNWILLINGNESS

resistance

  • n. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
  • n. (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
  • n. (physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
  • n. An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance…

action

  • n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
  • n. A way of motion or functioning.
  • n. A fast-paced activity.
  • n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
  • n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
  • n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
  • n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
  • n. (military) Combat.
  • n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
  • n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
  • n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
  • n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
  • n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
  • n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
  • interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
  • v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
  • v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

condition

  • n. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
  • n. A requirement, term, or requisite.
  • n. (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal…
  • n. The health status of a medical patient.
  • n. The state or quality.
  • n. A particular state of being.
  • n. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
  • v. To subject to the process of acclimation.
  • v. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
  • v. (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
  • v. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
  • v. (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
  • v. (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
  • v. (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
  • v. (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up…
  • v. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged…

deadness

  • n. The state of not being alive. Having the property of lifelessness, as if dead.
  • n. A lack of elasticity.
  • n. A lack of sparkle in a fizzy drink.
  • n. A lack of animation in a person.

immunity

  • n. (uncountable) The state of being insusceptible to something; notably.
  • n. (countable) A resistance to a specific thing.

impedance

  • n. (physics) A measure of the opposition to the flow of an alternating current in a circuit; the aggregation…
  • n. (physics) A quantity analogous to electrical impedance in some other energy domain.
  • n. (by analogy, software engineering, usually with “mismatch”) a measure of the opposition caused by differences…

involuntariness

  • n. The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.

opposition

  • n. The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
  • n. An opposite or contrasting position.
  • n. (astronomy) The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees…
  • n. (politics) A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
  • n. (law) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent…
  • n. (chess) A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance…

resistivity

  • n. (electricity) A material constant denoting propensity for electrical resistance, having SI unit: Ωm.
  • n. (thermodynamics) The reciprocal of thermal conductivity, having SI unit: m K W-1.

resistor

  • n. One who resists, especially a person who fights against an occupying army.
  • n. An electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it.

status

  • n. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
  • n. Prestige or high standing.
  • n. A situation or state of affairs.
  • n. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
  • n. (social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message…

underground

  • adj. (not comparable) Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
  • adj. Hidden, furtive, secretive.
  • adj. Of music, art, etc, outside the mainstream.
  • adv. Below the ground.
  • adv. Secretly.
  • n. (chiefly Britain) An underground railway.
  • n. (with "the") A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.
  • n. (with "the") A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.
  • v. To route electricity distribution cables underground.

unresponsiveness

  • n. The state of being unresponsive.

unwillingness

  • n. The property of being unwilling.

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