Resistance to change

Synonyms for "resistance to change" (23 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (5)

Noun(5 words)
bureaucratic inertiacautionchemical stabilitycomplacenciesconservatism

Strong matches (7)

Noun(6 words)
cultural inertiahabitual conservatisminactioninertiainstitutional conservatisminércia
Verb(1 words)
maintain status quo

Related words (11)

Noun(9 words)
oppositionorganizational inertiapolicy oppositionreluctanceresistance to accelerationrigidity in thinkingstatus quostatus quo biasstatus quoism
Adjective(1 words)
political status quos
Verb(1 words)
preserve status quo

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

8 entries
attitudinal tendencybehavioral traitcognitive stylegroup behaviorinstitutional behaviorlearning patternorganizational behaviortendency

More specific

10 entries
conservative learnercultural resistancedepartmental resistanceinstitutional resistancelate adopterleadership resistancepersonal resistancerisk averse studentsystemic resistanceteam resistance

Collocations

6 entries
change readinessinstitutional resistance to changeopenness to changeorganizational resistance to changestudent resistance to changeteacher resistance to change

Inflections

1 entries
resistances to change

Derivations

5 entries
change resistantresistresistanceresistant to changeresistantly