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mulishnessnoun a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of actioncursed their mulishness for failing to own up to what seemed like an obvious mistake to him bullheadedness, doggedness, hardheadedness, intransigence, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, obstinateness, opinionatedness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pigheadedness, self-opinionatedness, self-will, stubbornness, willfulness anal-retentiveness, perverseness, perversity, waywardness, wrongheadednessadamancy(also adamance), determination, implacability, inexorability, inflexibility, inveteracy, perseverance, persistence, persistency, relentlessness, resolve, single-mindedness, steadfastness, stick-to-itiveness, tenaciousness, tenacityfirmness, hardness, rigor, rigorousness, sternness, strictnessnarrow-mindedness, rigidity, rigidnessbloody-mindedness(chiefly British), cantankerousness, contrariness, cussednessbalkiness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, immovability, immovableness, insubordination, intractability, obstreperousness, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, unruliness broad-mindedness, open-mindedness, reasonability, reasonableness, receptiveness, receptivityacceptance, acquiescence, flexibility, pliability, pliableness, pliancy, pliantnesscompliance, docility, obedience, subordinateness, subordinationsubmission, surrender, willingness, yieldingslavishness, subservience, subserviency |