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recalcitrance

/ɹɪˈkæl.sɪˌtɹəns/

recalcitrance noun: the state of being recalcitrant.

Noun

recalcitrance (countable and uncountable, plural recalcitrances)

  1. The state of being recalcitrant.
    • Such evaluation, abstracted from historical necessity, was in Hegel's opinion a symptom of the sterile recalcitrance of Fichte and the Romantics.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...
    • But the prime minister’s [Benjamin Netanyahu's] recalcitrance on the subject of a future Palestinian state, long a Saudi condition, is being faulted as one of the reasons Israel is missing out on this opportunity.2025 May 14, Dina Kraft, “As Trump visits Mideast, Netanyahu’s government is wary of surprises”, in The Christian Science Monitor

recalcitrance meaning in Bengali

recalcitrance in Bengali

অবাধ্য হওয়ার অবস্থা

Forms of recalcitrance

pluralrecalcitrances

Origin of recalcitrance

In use since at least 1856 (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, published 1985). From French récalcitrance.

Questions about recalcitrance

What does recalcitrance mean?
Recalcitrance means the state of being recalcitrant.
What is recalcitrance in Bengali?
Recalcitrance in Bengali is অবাধ্য হওয়ার অবস্থা. See Recalcitrance meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is recalcitrance?
Recalcitrance is a noun.
How do you pronounce recalcitrance?
Recalcitrance is pronounced /ɹɪˈkæl.sɪˌtɹəns/.
What is the plural of recalcitrance?
The plural of recalcitrance is recalcitrances.

Words near recalcitrance in the dictionary

  1. recalcine
  2. recalcined
  3. recalcines
  4. recalcing
  5. recalcining
  6. recalcitrance
  7. recalcitrances
  8. recalcitrancies
  9. recalcitrancy
  10. recalcitrant
  11. recalcitrantly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recalcitrance (page history and authors); recalcitrance (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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