perverseness
121ill-temper — n. Moroseness, sullenness, sulkiness, crabbedness, crossness, perverseness, bad temper. See ill nature …
122intractability — n. Stubbornness, obstinacy, perverseness, intractableness. See following adjective …
123naughtiness — n. Perverseness, frowardness, mischievousness, misbehavior …
124persistence — n.; (also persistency) 1. See perseverance. 2. Obstinacy, contumacy, doggedness, stubbornness, perverseness, pertinacity, obduracy, headiness, pig headedness. 3. Continuance, continuation …
125perversity — n. See perverseness …
126thwartness — n. Untowardness, perverseness …
127perverse — adjective continuing to behave in an unreasonable way, especially by deliberately doing the opposite of what people want you to do: He gets some kind of perverse satisfaction from embarrassing people. perversely adverb perverseness noun (U) …
128arbitrariness — n 1. capriciousness, whimsicalness, whimsicality, unreasonableness; willfulness, stubbornness, perverseness, mulishness, obstinacy, intransigence. 2. imperiousness, magisterialness, domineeringness, overbearingness, high handedness,… …