Synonyms of mulishness

mulishness

noun

as in obdurateness

a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action

cursed their mulishness for failing to own up to what seemed like an obvious mistake to him

Synonyms & Similar Words

• obdurateness
• persistence
• persistency
• opinionatedness
• resolve
• determination
• self-opinionatedness
• pertinaciousness
• bullheadedness
• stubbornness
• intransigence
• pigheadedness
• obstinateness
• obstinacy
• willfulness
• obduracy
• self-will
• doggedness
• hardheadedness
• pertinacity
• adamance
• wrongheadedness
• defiance
• perverseness
• perversity
• waywardness
• steadfastness
• anal-retentiveness
• recalcitrancy
• perseverance
• inexorability
• balkiness
• rebelliousness
• obstreperousness
• immovableness
• tenacity
• rigidity
• inflexibility
• adamancy
• hardness
• strictness
• single-mindedness
• implacability
• inveteracy
• tenaciousness
• sternness
• disobedience
• firmness
• relentlessness
• rigidness
• narrow-mindedness
• rigorousness
• refractoriness
• cussedness
• cantankerousness
• immovability
• contumacy
• insubordination
• intractability
• recalcitrance
• unruliness
• frowardness
• rigor
• stick-to-itiveness
• bloody-mindedness
• contrariness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reasonableness
• acceptance
• receptivity
• flexibility
• receptiveness
• acquiescence
• reasonability
• compliance
• subordination
• pliability
• obedience
• pliancy
• pliantness
• submission
• surrender
• willingness
• pliableness
• docility
• broad-mindedness
• open-mindedness
• yielding
• subordinateness
• subservience
• slavishness
• subserviency