resistance

Noun

• group action in opposition to those in power

• an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

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

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

• a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

• 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
    

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

• the military action of resisting the enemy's advance
  • the enemy offered little resistance
    

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

• any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

• 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
    

Related words

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