All docility antonyms

noun docility

• cruelty — Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
• harshness — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
• meanness — the state or quality of being mean.
• inability — lack of ability; lack of power, capacity, or means: his inability to make decisions.
• incompetence — the quality or condition of being incompetent; lack of ability.
• incapacity — lack of ability, qualification, or strength; incapability.
• lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
• ineptitude — quality or condition of being inept.
• ineptness — without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.
• roughness — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
• disdain — to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
• disrespect — Lack of respect or courtesy.