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  • 31tenacity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Persistence Nouns tenacity, cohesion, coherence; holding, strength; viscidity, viscosity; pertinacity, perseverance, persistence, resolution, patience; obstinacy, resistance, constancy, retention.… …

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  • 32intractability — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. mulishness, tenacity, obstinacy; see determination , stubbornness . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or condition of being unruly: dis orderliness, fractiousness, indocility, intracta bleness, obstinacy,… …

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  • 33stubbornness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. obstinacy, doggedness, inflexibility, pertinacity, indomitability, perverseness, perversity, contumacy, obduracy, adamancy, refractoriness, mulishness, sullenness, pigheadedness, stupidity, intractableness, bullheadedness,… …

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  • 34bullheadedness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding: doggedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinateness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, tenaciousness, tenacity,… …

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  • 35doggedness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding: bullheadedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinateness, pertina ciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, tenaciousness,… …

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  • 36obstinateness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding: bullheadedness, doggedness, hard headedness, mulishness, obstinacy, pertina ciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, tenaciousness,… …

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  • 37pertinaciousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding: bullheadedness, doggedness, hard headedness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinateness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, pig headedness, tenaciousness, tenacity,… …

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  • 38pertinacity — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding: bullheadedness, doggedness, hard headedness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinateness, pertinaciousness, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, tenaciousness, tenacity …

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  • 39perverseness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding: bullheadedness, doggedness, hard headedness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinateness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perversity, pigheadedness, tenaciousness, tenacity …

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  • 40pigheadedness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding: bullheadedness, doggedness, hard headedness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinateness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, tenaciousness, tenacity,… …

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