opinionatedness

opinionatedness

noun

Definition of OPINIONATEDNESS

1

a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion <guests on that political talk show seem to be far more prized for their uninhibited opinionatedness than for any trace of reasonableness>

Synonyms bullheadedness, doggedness, hardheadedness, intransigence, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinateness, opinionatedness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pigheadedness, self-opinionatedness, self-will, stubbornness, willfulness

Related Words anal-retentiveness, perverseness, perversity, waywardness, wrongheadedness; adamancy (also adamance), determination, implacability, inexorability, inflexibility, inveteracy, perseverence, persistence, persistency, relentlessness, resolve, single-mindedness, steadfastness, stick-to-itiveness, tenaciousness, tenacity; firmness, hardness, rigor, rigorousness, sternness, strictness; narrow-mindedness, rigidity, rigidness; bloody-mindedness [chiefly British], cantankerousness, contrariness, cussedness; balkiness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, immovability, immovableness, insubordination, intractibility, obstreperousness, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, unruliness

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

2

stubborn or intolerant adherence to one's opinions or prejudices <in matters of religion, she seems to confuse self-righteous opinionatedness with godly devotion>

Synonyms dogmatism, illiberalism, illiberality, illiberalness, intolerance, intolerantness, narrow-mindedness, opinionatedness, partisanship, sectarianism, small-mindedness

Related Words conservatism, reactionaryism; insularism, insularity, parochialism, provincialism

Near Antonyms progressiveness, progressivism

Antonyms broad-mindedness, liberalism, liberality, open-mindedness, tolerance