Englishdefiance
noun
he wasn't used to such outspoken defiance:
resistance, opposition, confrontation;
noncompliance, disobedience, insubordination, dissent, recalcitrance, subversion, subversiveness;
rebelliousness, mutinousness, provocation, daring, boldness, temerity, audacity, bravado, aggression;
contempt, disregard, scorn, insolence, truculence, contumacy.
▷antonyms submission, obedience.