Synonyms for resistance
rɪˈzɪs tənsre·sis·tance

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1. resistance

   The weak may speak or act in defense of the strong; none but the powerful can assure others of protection. A defense is ordinarily against actual attack; protection is against possible as well as actual dangers. We speak of defense against an assault, protection from the cold. Vindication is a triumphant defense of character and conduct against charges of error or wrong. Compare APOLOGY.

   Synonyms:
   apology, bulwark, defense, fortress, guard, justification, protection, rampart, safeguard, shelter, shield, vindication

   Antonyms:
   abandonment, betrayal, capitulation, desertion, flight, surrender

   Preposition:
   Defense against assault or assailants; in law, defense to an action, from the testimony.

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1. resistance

   Synonyms:
   opposition, hindrance

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1. resistance, oppositionnoun

   the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

   "he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens"; "despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead"

   Synonyms:
   underground, foe, resistivity, opposite, confrontation, immunity, enemy, ohmic resistance, foeman, electrical resistance, opponent, impedance, electric resistance, opposition, resistor, oppositeness

2. resistancenoun

   any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

   Synonyms:
   electrical resistance, resistivity, immunity, ohmic resistance, underground, impedance, resistor, opposition, electric resistance

3. electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, resistance, resistivity, ohmic resistancenoun

   a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

   Synonyms:
   electrical resistance, resistivity, immunity, ohmic resistance, underground, impedance, resistor, opposition, electric resistance

4. resistancenoun

   the military action of resisting the enemy's advance

   "the enemy offered little resistance"

   Synonyms:
   electrical resistance, resistivity, immunity, ohmic resistance, underground, impedance, resistor, opposition, electric resistance

5. immunity, resistancenoun

   (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

   Synonyms:
   electrical resistance, resistivity, immunity, ohmic resistance, underground, impedance, exemption, resistor, unsusceptibility, granting immunity, opposition, electric resistance

6. resistancenoun

   the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents

   "these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog"

   Synonyms:
   electrical resistance, resistivity, immunity, ohmic resistance, underground, impedance, resistor, opposition, electric resistance

7. underground, resistancenoun

   a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

   Synonyms:
   resistivity, immunity, ohmic resistance, underground, subway, impedance, resistor, electrical resistance, metro, opposition, subway system, electric resistance, tube

8. resistancenoun

   the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

   Synonyms:
   electrical resistance, resistivity, immunity, ohmic resistance, underground, impedance, resistor, opposition, electric resistance

9. resistancenoun

   (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

   Synonyms:
   electrical resistance, resistivity, immunity, ohmic resistance, underground, impedance, resistor, opposition, electric resistance

10. resistor, resistancenoun

    an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

    Synonyms:
    electrical resistance, resistivity, immunity, ohmic resistance, underground, impedance, resistor, opposition, electric resistance

11. resistancenoun

    group action in opposition to those in power

    Synonyms:
    electrical resistance, resistivity, immunity, ohmic resistance, underground, impedance, resistor, opposition, electric resistance

Matched Categories

1. • Action
   • Bacteria
   • Capability
   • Condition
   • Electrical Device
   • Electrical Phenomenon
   • Group Action
   • Mechanical Phenomenon
   • Medicine
   • Military
   • Military Action
   • Psychiatry
   • Revolutionary Group
   • Unresponsiveness
   • Unwillingness

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1. resistancenoun

   Synonyms:
   opposition, hinderance, rebuff, check

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1. resistancenoun

   Synonyms:
   opposition, renitence, recalcitration, oppugnation, antagonism, rebuff

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1. List of paraphrases for "resistance":

   strength, resilience, resistor, résistance, resistant, resisting, resist, opposition, resiliency, reluctance, stress, hardiness, resister, resistencia, endurance, stamina, militant, steadfastness, resisted

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How to use resistance in a sentence?

1. Joshua Schiffman:

   This is where the field is moving as a whole, if we can understand how these genomic changes are contributing to... cancer resistance, then we'll be able to start thinking about how do we translate this to our patients ?

2. Gregory Peck:

   You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.

3. Stefano Gatti:

   The radical far-right feels more legitimized and stronger, thus they're more active, twenty years ago you couldn't hang around shouting' Viva il Duce,' there was greater resistance towards extremist themes. The dam barriers have been lowered, so people feel they can freely pour hatred towards Liliana Segre online.

4. Wang Tao:

   Brent oil may break a resistance at $48.80 per barrel and rise more to $49.53, as indicated by its wave pattern and a Fibonacci projection analysis, support is at $47.51, the 61.8 percent Fibonacci retracement on the rise from $45.59 to $50.62, a break below which will lead to a further loss to $46.78, the 76.4 percent retracement.

5. Ronald Leung:

   It's sad, because it shows that the rule of the central and local governments has failed, and people have only become angrier, it is only inevitable that people will find more and more radical ways of resistance.