stubbornness

stubbornness
I
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. obstinacy, doggedness, inflexibility, pertinacity, indomitability, perverseness, perversity, contumacy, obduracy, adamancy, refractoriness, mulishness, sullenness, pigheadedness, stupidity, intractableness, bullheadedness, moroseness; see also determination 2 .
Ant. flexibility*, amenability, good nature.
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(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being stubbornly inflexible: die-hardism, grimness, implacability, implacableness, incompliance, incompliancy, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence, mtransigency, obduracy, obdurateness, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigidity, rigidness. See RESIST.

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