resistance

noun

1. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

   “widespread resistance to the new urban development plans”

   “the resistance of bacteria to certain antibiotics”

2. physicsA force that tends to oppose motion.

3. physicsElectrical resistance.

4. An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.

5. 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”

   Similar: opposition

6. A material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

   Similar: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, resistivity, ohmic resistance

7. The military action of resisting the enemy's advance

   “the enemy offered little resistance”

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

   Similar: immunity

9. 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”

10. A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

    Similar: underground

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

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

13. An electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

    Similar: resistor

14. Group action in opposition to those in power