resistance.
The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
Meaning & usage
The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
widespread resistance to the new urban development plans
the resistance of bacteria to certain antibiotics
A force that tends to oppose motion.
Electrical resistance.
A resistor.
An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.
Where this word comes from
From earlier resistence, from Middle English resistence, from Old French resistence, from Latin resistentia. Morphologically resist + -ance.
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