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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disobedience \Dis'o*be"di*ence\, noun Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.
He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. --Tillotson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
disobedience
noun
1: the failure to obey [syn: {noncompliance}] [ant: {conformity}, {obedience}]
2: the trait of being unwilling to obey [ant: {obedience}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "disobedience": abnegation, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, contradiction, cursoriness, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disinclination, disrelish, dissent, distaste, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent, grudgingness, holding back, indiscipline, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, insubordination, interregnum, intractableness, irresponsibility, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, lawlessness, license, licentiousness, mutinousness, mutiny, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, nolition, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance, obstinacy, opposition, perfunctoriness, power vacuum, rampant will, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recantation, refractoriness, refusal, rejection, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repudiation, repugnance, resistance, retention, slowness, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, thumbs-down, turndown, unaccountability, uncontrol, unenthusiasm, unrestraint, unwillingness, willfulness, withholding
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
DISOBEDIENCE, noun The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
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