unrepentance

Refusal to apologize

Unrepentance is the state of feeling no remorse or regret for wrongdoing—a refusal to apologize or seek forgiveness.

The word implies awareness of having done something others consider wrong, combined with unwillingness to acknowledge fault: His unrepentance in the face of overwhelming evidence shocked the jury.

Less common than the adjective unrepentant.

impenitence

remorselessness

State of feeling no regret

hardheartednessAbsence of pity
callousnessCruel emotional indifference
heartlessnessLack of compassion

unfeelingness · coldness · indifference · insensibility · obduracy · induration · stoniness · pitilessness · mercilessness · ruthlessness

defiance

Open resistance to authority

rebellionDefiance of established power
insubordinationDefying workplace authority
disobedienceRefusal to follow orders

resistance · dissent · recalcitrance · contumacy · noncompliance · unruliness · rebelliousness · intransigence · nonconformity · contrariness

obstinacy

stubbornness

Refusal to yield

inflexibilityQuality of being unbending
adamancyFirm refusal to yield
bullheadednessStubborn persistence despite reason

pigheadedness · hardheadedness · mulishness · willfulness · self-will · unyieldingness · unbendingness · immovability · doggedness · pertinacity

Opposites

moral/emotional response to wrongdoing

unrepentancerepentance

Remorseful rejection of past wrongs

contrition · remorse · penitence · regret · compunction

Family

unrepentant

Familiarity: Top 1,000,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G