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obduracy
Synonyms and Antonyms of obduracy
- the administrator was known for her unyielding obduracy even in the face of proof that she was wrong
anal-retentiveness, perverseness, perversity, waywardness, wrongheadedness
adamancy (also adamance), determination, implacability, inexorability, inflexibility, inveteracy, perseverance, 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, intractability, obstreperousness, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, unruliness
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