obstinacy

Synonyms and related words:

adhesiveness, antagonism, antipathy, application, assiduity, assiduousness, averseness, aversion, backwardness, bad blood, bloody-mindedness, bulldog tenacity, bullheadedness, cantankerousness, challenge, clashing, cohesiveness, collision, combative reaction, commitment, competition, complaint, concentration, conflict, consistency, constancy, contrariety, contrariness, contumaciousness, contumacy, counteraction, cross-purposes, cursoriness, decidedness, decision, decisiveness, dedication, defiance, defiance of authority, definiteness, demur, determinateness, determination, determinedness, devotion, diligence, disaccord, disagreement, disinclination, disobedience, dispute, disrelish, dissension, dissent, dissentience, distaste, dogged perseverance, doggedness, earnestness, endurance, energy, engrossment, enmity, fidelity, firmness, fixedness, foot-dragging, force, fortitude, fractiousness, friction, frowardness, fundamentalism, gluiness, glutinosity, grudging consent, grudgingness, gumminess, guts, gutsiness, hardiness, hardness, heartiness, hostility, imperviousness, impliability, indefatigability, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, industriousness, industry, inexorability, inflexibility, inimicalness, insistence, insistency, intestinal fortitude, intractability, intractableness, intransigence, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, loyalty, lustihood, lustiness, might, mightiness, mulishness, mutinousness, negativeness, negativism, nolition, noncooperation, obduracy, obdurateness, objection, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opposition, oppugnancy, orneriness, orthodoxy, passive resistance, patience, patience of Job, perfunctoriness, permanence, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, plodding, plugging, potency, power, powerfulness, precisianism, preoccupation, protest, purism, puritanism, purpose, purposefulness, reaction, rebelliousness, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, refractoriness, refusal, relentlessness, reluctance, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, resistance, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, resolvedness, restiveness, retention, revolt, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, rivalry, robustness, ruggedness, sedulity, sedulousness, self-will, seriousness, sincerity, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, slowness, snugness, stability, stalwartness, stamina, stand, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, sticking power, stiffness, stolidity, stoutness, strength, strength of will, stubbornness, sturdiness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tightness, tirelessness, total commitment, toughness, unbendingness, uncompromisingness, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, unimpressionability, uninfluenceability, unmovability, unpersuadability, unreceptiveness, unrelentingness, unremittingness, unresponsiveness, unruliness, unsuggestibility, unsusceptibility, unswayableness, unswerving attention, unwillingness, unyieldingness, vigor, vigorousness, viscidity, viscosity, vitality, vying, wildness, will, withstanding