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obstinacy

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Synonyms & Antonyms of obstinacy

a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion

the mindless obstinacy of those people who continue to insist that the earth is flat

Synonyms for obstinacy

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

Words Related to obstinacy

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

Near Antonyms for obstinacy

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

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