All nonobservance synonyms

noun nonobservance

• contravention — an act of contravening; action counter to something; violation or opposition.
• dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
• disregard — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
• infraction — breach; violation; infringement: an infraction of the rules.
• infringement — a breach or infraction, as of a law, right, or obligation; violation; transgression.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• noncompliance — failure or refusal to comply, as with a law, regulation, or term of a contract.
• offense — a violation or breaking of a social or moral rule; transgression; sin.
• transgression — an act of transgressing; violation of a law, command, etc.; sin.
• violation — the act of violating.
• barratry — (formerly) the vexatious stirring up of quarrels or bringing of lawsuits
• delinquency — Delinquency is criminal behaviour, especially that of young people.
• disobedience — lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
• trespass — Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
• misconduct — improper conduct; wrong behavior.
• default — If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.
• crime — A crime is an illegal action or activity for which a person can be punished by law.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
• lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
• misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
• misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
• misdeed — an immoral or wicked deed.
• misdemeanor — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
• nonfeasance — the omission of some act that ought to have been performed. Compare malfeasance, misfeasance (def 2).
• oversight — an omission or error due to carelessness: My bank statement is full of oversights.
• weakness — the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.
• wrongdoing — behavior or action that is wrong, evil, or blameworthy.
• defiance — Defiance is behaviour or an attitude which shows that you are not willing to obey someone.
• indiscipline — lack of discipline or control: a campus problem of student indiscipline.
• insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
• insurgence — an act of rebellion; insurrection; revolt.
• intractableness — The state of being intractable; intractability.
• mutiny — revolt or rebellion against constituted authority, especially by sailors against their officers.
• perversity — the state or quality of being perverse.
• rebellion — open, organized, and armed resistance to one's government or ruler.
• recalcitrance — resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
• refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
• revolt — to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny: to revolt against the present government.
• revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
• riot — a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
• sabotage — any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc., as by enemy agents during wartime or by employees during a trade dispute.
• sedition — incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
• strike — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
• stubbornness — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
• unruliness — not submissive or conforming to rule; ungovernable; turbulent; intractable; refractory; lawless: an unruly class; an unruly wilderness.
• insubmission — Lack of submission; disobedience.
• wayward — turned or turning away from what is right or proper; willful; disobedient: a wayward son; wayward behavior.
• dissension — strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.
• insurrection — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.