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willfulness
Synonyms and Antonyms of willfulness
1
a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion
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
2
refusal to obey
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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