Synonyms of obstinateness

obstinateness

noun

as in persistence

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

regardless of the issue, she holds onto her position with an obstinateness that would exhaust the patience of a saint

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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