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41tenaciousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding: bullheadedness, doggedness, hard headedness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinateness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, tenacity,… …
42willfulness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) also wilfulness noun The quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding: bullheadedness, doggedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinateness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity,… …
43mulish — (adj.) 1751, from MULE (Cf. mule) (1) + ISH (Cf. ish). Related: Mulishly; mulishness …
44mulish — [ mju:lɪʃ] adjective stubborn (like a mule). Derivatives mulishly adverb mulishness noun …
45indocility — n. Unteachableness, indocibleness, indocibility, intractableness, stubbornness, obstinacy, mulishness …
46pertinacity — n. 1. Resolution, determination, steadiness, constancy, inflexibility, firmness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacy, tenacity of purpose. 2. Stubbornness, obstinacy, wilfulness, doggedness, headiness, mulishness, persistence,… …
47mulish — adjective refusing to do something or agree to something in an unreasonable way; stubborn: mulish obstinacy mulishly adverb mulishness noun (U) …
48obstinacy — noun Zach s obstinacy contributed to his unfavorable performance evaluation Syn: stubbornness, inflexibility, intransigence, intractability, obduracy, mulishness, pigheadedness, willfulness, contrariness, perversity, recalcitrance, refractoriness …
49perversity — noun 1) out of sheer perversity, he refused Syn: contrariness, awkwardness, recalcitrance, stubbornness, obstinacy, obduracy, mulishness, pigheadedness; formal refractoriness 2) the perversity of the decision Syn: unreasonableness, irrationa …
50arbitrariness — n 1. capriciousness, whimsicalness, whimsicality, unreasonableness; willfulness, stubbornness, perverseness, mulishness, obstinacy, intransigence. 2. imperiousness, magisterialness, domineeringness, overbearingness, high handedness,… …
