disobedience

English

Etymology

From Middle English disobedience, dysobediaunce, from Old French desobedience. By surface analysis, dis- +‎ obedience. Displaced native Old English unhīersumnes.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪs.əˈbiː.dɪəns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

disobedience (countable and uncountable, plural disobediences)

1. Refusal to obey.

   The teacher complained of the child's disobedience.

Synonyms

• contumacy
• rebellion

Antonyms

• obedience

Derived terms

• civil disobedience
• intelligent disobedience

Related terms

• disobedient

Translations

refusal to obey

• Arabic: عِصْيَان m (ʕiṣyān)
• Armenian: անհնազանդություն (hy) (anhnazandutʻyun)
• Belarusian: непаслушэ́нства n (njepaslušénstva), непадпара́дкаванне n (njepadparádkavannje), непаслухмя́насць n (njepasluxmjánascʹ)
• Bulgarian: непослушание (bg) n (neposlušanie), неподчинение (bg) n (nepodčinenie)
• Carpathian Rusyn: нєпослух (njeposlux)
• Catalan: desobediència f
• Cebuano: paglapas
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不服從 / 不服从 (bùfúcóng)

• Czech: neposlušnost (cs) f, vzdor (cs) m
• Danish: ulydighed c
• Dutch: ongehoorzaamheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: malobeemo
• Faroese: ólýdni f or n
• Finnish: tottelemattomuus (fi)
• French: désobéissance (fr) f
• German: Ungehorsam (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (ufarhauseins)
• Greek: ανυπακοή (el) f (anypakoḯ)

  Ancient: παρακοή f (parakoḗ), ἀπείθεια f (apeítheia)

• Hebrew: אי-ציות (y-tziut)
• Hungarian: engedetlenség (hu), engedetlenkedés
• Irish: aimhriar f, anumhlaíocht f, doriarthacht f, easumhlaíocht f, míréir f
• Italian: disobbedienza (it) f
• Japanese: 不服従 (ふふくじゅう, fufukujū)
• Korean: 불복종 (bulbokjong)
• Latvian: nepaklausība f
• Malayalam: അനുസരണക്കേട് (anusaraṇakkēṭŭ)
• Northern Sami: jeagohisvuohta
• Norwegian: ulydighet (no)
• Old English: unhīersumnes f
• Old Swedish: ōlyþna n
• Polish: nieposłuszeństwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: desobediência (pt) f
• Russian: неповинове́ние (ru) n (nepovinovénije), непослуша́ние (ru) n (neposlušánije), неподчине́ние (ru) n (nepodčinénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: eas-ùmhlachd f
• Spanish: desobediencia (es) f
• Swedish: olydnad (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagsuway
• Ukrainian: непоко́ра f (nepokóra), непокі́рність f (nepokírnistʹ), неслухня́ність f (nesluxnjánistʹ), непо́слух m (nepóslux)
• Upper Sorbian: njeposłušnosć f
• Urdu: نافَرْمان٘بَرْداری f (nāfarmāṉbardārī)