stubbornness

stubbornness
Synonyms and related words:
adhesiveness, antipathy, application, assiduity, assiduousness, averseness, aversion, backwardness, balkiness, bigotry, bulldog tenacity, bullheadedness, cantankerousness, cohesiveness, concentration, consistency, constancy, contempt, contumaciousness, contumacy, cursoriness, defiance, defiance of authority, despite, determination, diligence, disagreement, disinclination, disobedience, disrelish, dissent, distaste, dogged perseverance, doggedness, dogmatism, durability, endurance, engrossment, fanaticism, fidelity, firmness, fixed mind, foot-dragging, fractiousness, fundamentalism, gluiness, glutinosity, grudging consent, grudgingness, gumminess, hardheadedness, hardiness, hardness, headstrongness, immovability, immutability, impliability, indefatigability, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, inductility, industriousness, industry, inelasticity, inexorability, inextensibility, inflexibility, inflexible will, infrangibility, insistence, insistency, intolerance, intractability, intractableness, irresilience, irresiliency, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, lastingness, leatherlikeness, loyalty, mulishness, mutinousness, nolition, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opinionatedness, opposition, orneriness, orthodoxy, overzealousness, patience, patience of Job, perfunctoriness, permanence, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pigheadedness, plodding, plugging, precisianism, preoccupation, purism, puritanism, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, refractoriness, refusal, relentlessness, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repugnance, resistance, resolution, restiveness, retention, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, ropiness, sedulity, sedulousness, self-will, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, slowness, snugness, stability, stamina, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, stiff neck, stiff-neckedness, stiffness, strength, stringiness, strongheadness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tightness, tirelessness, toughness, unalterability, unbendingness, unbreakability, unbreakableness, uncompromisingness, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, unlimberness, unmalleability, unpliability, unregenerateness, unrelentingness, unremittingness, unruliness, unswerving attention, unwillingness, unyieldingness, viscidity, viscosity, vitality, wildness, willfulness

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  • stubbornness — index defiance, diligence (perseverance), tenacity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • stubbornness — is spelt with two ns …   Modern English usage

  • stubbornness — n. 1) sheer stubbornness 2) stubbornness about 3) stubbornness to + inf. (it was sheer stubbornness not to agree) 4) out of stubbornness (she refused to compromise out of stubbornness) * * * sheer stubbornness stubbornness about stubbornness to + …   Combinatory dictionary

  • stubbornness — stubborn ► ADJECTIVE 1) determined not to change one s attitude or position. 2) difficult to move, remove, or cure. DERIVATIVES stubbornly adverb stubbornness noun. ORIGIN of unknown origin …   English terms dictionary

  • Stubbornness — Stubborn Stub born, a. [OE. stoburn, stiborn; probably fr. AS. styb a stub. See {Stub}.] Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • stubbornness — noun see stubborn …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • stubbornness — See stubbornly. * * * …   Universalium

  • stubbornness — noun The state of being stubborn …   Wiktionary

  • stubbornness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. obstinacy, doggedness, inflexibility, pertinacity, indomitability, perverseness, perversity, contumacy, obduracy, adamancy, refractoriness, mulishness, sullenness, pigheadedness, stupidity, intractableness, bullheadedness,… …   English dictionary for students

  • stubbornness — stub·born·ness || stÊŒbÉ™(r)nɪs n. obstinacy; persistence, tenacity …   English contemporary dictionary

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