resistence
Middle English
/rɛˈzistɛns(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- Military resistance or opposition to a government.
- Passive or peaceful resistance or opposition to a government.
- Challenge, obstruction; a hazard or obstacle.
- (rare) Hardness, rigidity; the state of being firm or non-flexible.
- (rare) An opposing argument; a response to an argument
- (rare) An individual's capability for resisting.
- (rare) A strike or attack.
Etymology
Derived from Old French resistence derived from Latin resistentia affix from Middle English resisten.
Origin
Middle English
resisten
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiresistance English
- autoresistance English
- chemoresistance English
- coresistance English
- corticoresistance English
- counterresistance English
- cross-resistance English
- cryoresistance English
- cytoresistance English
- elastoresistance English
- electroresistance English
- heteroresistance English
- hyperresistance English
- immunoresistance English
- irresistance English
- magnetoresistance English
- monoresistance English
- multiresistance English
- nonresistance English
- osmoresistance English
- oxidoresistance English
- panresistance English
- pharmacoresistance English
- photoresistance English
- piezoresistance English
- polyresistance English
- radioresistance English
- resist English
- resistance English
- resistanceless English
- seroresistance English
- thermoresistance English
- thromboresistance English
- unresistance English
- resistentia Latin
- rezisztencia Hungarian
- resistenza Italian
- résistance French
- resistencia Spanish, Castilian
- resistência Portuguese
- resisten Middle English
- resistyng Middle English
- resistence Old French
- resistre Old French
- resistència Catalan, Valencian
- resistencia Asturian
- resister xno