noncompliance
Not following rules
Noncompliance is failure or refusal to follow rules, orders, or requirements.
The term appears frequently in medical, legal, and regulatory contexts: patient noncompliance with medication, noncompliance with safety regulations.
It implies an authority has set expectations that someone isn't meeting, whether through neglect, inability, or deliberate resistance.
Defying workplace authority
- recalcitranceStubborn refusal to obey
- obstinacyUnyielding adherence to position
- willfulnessIntentional resistance to direction
- unrulinessDifficult to manage behavior
stubbornness · intractability · contumacy · refusal · disobedience · noncooperation · uncooperative · refractory
Breaking of rules
- infractionMinor rule breach
- breachBreaking of agreement
- contraventionAct violating a rule
- infringementViolation of rights
transgression · penalty · sanction · fine · citation · enforcement · audit · inspection
Peaceful refusal to obey
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- sit-inProtest by remaining seated
- noncooperationRefusing to work together
satyagraha · Thoreau · suffragette · demonstration · resistance · conscientious objection · draft resistance · tax resistance
Lacking any regulation
- refractoryResistant to heat/control
- contraindicatedMedically inadvisable due to risk
insubordination
Defying workplace authority
- recalcitranceStubborn refusal to obey
- obstinacyUnyielding adherence to position
- willfulnessIntentional resistance to direction
unruliness · stubbornness · intractability · contumacy · refusal · disobedience · noncooperation · uncooperative · refractory · obdurate
violation
Breaking of rules
- infractionMinor rule breach
- breachBreaking of agreement
- contraventionAct violating a rule
infringement · transgression · penalty · sanction · fine · citation · enforcement · audit · inspection · warning
civil disobedience
Peaceful refusal to obey
noncooperation · satyagraha · Thoreau · suffragette · demonstration · resistance · conscientious objection · draft resistance · tax resistance · hunger strike
uncontrolled
Lacking any regulation
- refractoryResistant to heat/control
- contraindicatedMedically inadvisable due to risk
- defiancedefiance, disobedience, insubordination, rebellion, disobey
- misbehaviormisbehave, misbehavior, mischief, misconduct, naughty
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- Resistance tacticsrefusal, defiance, rebellion, protest, boycott
- toddler behaviortantrums, whining, pouting, saying no, defiance
- unrulinessmisbehavior, misconduct, disobedience, defiance, insubordination
noncompliancecompliance
Adhering to requirements
conformity · obedience · adherence · observance · conformance
noncompliancecooperation
Joint action toward shared aims
compliance · collaboration · accommodation · amenability · tractability
noncompliancedeference
Yielding to another's judgment
submission · acquiescence · yielding · docility · subservience