rebellion

noun

1 troops were sent into the area to suppress the rebellion:

uprising, revolt, insurrection, mutiny, revolution, insurgence, insurgency, rising, rioting, riot;

civil disobedience, civil disorder, unrest, anarchy, fighting in the streets;

coup, regime change;

French coup d'état, jacquerie;

German putsch.

2 in the 1950s and 60s listening to rock'n'roll was an act of rebellion:

defiance, disobedience, rebelliousness, insubordination, mutinousness, subversion, subversiveness, resistance, dissent, nonconformity;

heresy, apostasy, schism, recusancy;

archaic contumacy.

▷antonyms obedience.