Obedience vs Resistance - What's the difference?
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The quality of being obedient.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
(physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.
As nouns the difference between obedience and resistance
is that obedience is persuasion; allegiance while resistance is resistance (all meanings).obedience
English
(wikipedia obedience)Alternative forms
* , (l) (qualifier)Noun
(-)- Obedience is essential in any army.
- Cautioning Nobs to silence, and he had learned many lessons in the value of obedience since we had entered Caspak, I slunk forward, taking advantage of whatever cover I could find...
Synonyms
* submissionAntonyms
* disobedience, defiance, rebellion (ignoring ) * violation (ignoring, especially rules ) * control, dominance (ruling )External links
* * ----resistance
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Alternative forms
* resistaunce (obsolete)Noun
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}