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wrongheadedness

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Synonyms & Antonyms of wrongheadedness

as in perversity, perverseness

Synonyms & Near Synonyms for wrongheadedness

anal-retentiveness,
perverseness,
perversity,
waywardness

bullheadedness,
doggedness,
hardheadedness,
intransigence,
mulishness,
obduracy,
obdurateness,
obstinacy,
obstinateness,
opinionatedness,
pertinaciousness,
pertinacity,
pigheadedness,
self-opinionatedness,
self-will,
stubbornness,
willfulness

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms for wrongheadedness

broad-mindedness,
open-mindedness,
reasonability,
reasonableness,
receptiveness,
receptivity

acceptance,
acquiescence,
flexibility,
pliability,
pliableness,
pliancy,
pliantness

compliance,
docility,
obedience,
subordinateness,
subordination

submission,
surrender,
willingness,
yielding

slavishness,
subservience,
subserviency

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“Wrongheadedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrongheadedness. Accessed 30 Jun. 2022.

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