Synonyms of obstinacy

obstinacy

noun

as in stubbornness

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 & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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