Synonyms of willfulness

willfulness

noun

1

as in stubbornness

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

her unceasing willfulness eventually wore down her critics and opponents

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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2

as in rebellion

refusal to obey

the trainer was able to correct our dog's willfulness

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rebellion
• rebelliousness
• defiance
• disobedience
• contrariness
• waywardness
• contumacy
• disrespect
• recalcitrance
• insubordination
• unruliness
• intractability
• rudeness
• stubbornness
• refractoriness
• frowardness
• balkiness
• obstreperousness
• noncooperation
• obstinacy
• perversity
• pigheadedness
• tenacity
• inconsiderateness
• doggedness
• obduracy
• civil disobedience
• inconsideration
• peevishness
• pertinacity
• ungraciousness
• self-will
• tenaciousness
• impudence
• insolence
• impoliteness
• mischievousness
• hardheadedness
• naughtiness
• obdurateness
• discourteousness
• impertinence
• mulishness
• knavery
• obstinateness
• pertinaciousness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• obedience
• subordination
• compliance
• submission
• tractability
• submissiveness
• slavishness
• subservience
• agreeability
• amiability
• amenability
• subserviency
• deference
• docility
• subordinateness
• trainability
• dutifulness
• tractableness

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• obedience
• subordination
• compliance
• submission
• tractability
• submissiveness
• slavishness
• subservience
• agreeability
• amiability
• amenability
• subserviency
• deference
• docility
• subordinateness
• trainability
• dutifulness
• tractableness

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