I agree - "resistentialism" is not exactly a modern coinage!

Fifty-plus years ago my mother was using that word, which she defined as "the inherent perversity of inanimate matter." I suspect a common source. Though not well-educated,* she read voraciously and was extremely well-informed.

The paradigm was "Bread always falls butter-side down."

*Edit: Let me rephrase that. She had little formal higher education, going to work in the late 1920's after completing high school. She was nevertheless _very_ well-educated.