Thesaurus
willfulness
Synonyms and Antonyms of willfulness
- Her unceasing willfulness eventually wore down her critics and opponents.
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
cantankerousness, contrariness, cussedness
balkiness, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, insubordination, intractability, obstreperousness, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, unruliness
- The dog trainer was able to tame our dog's willfulness.
civil disobedience, noncooperation
discourteousness, disrespect, impertinence, impoliteness, impudence, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, insolence, rudeness, ungraciousness
doggedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, obstinateness, peevishness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perversity, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness, tenaciousness, tenacity
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