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obduracynoun a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasionthe administrator was known for her unyielding obduracy even in the face of proof that she was wrong bullheadedness, doggedness, hardheadedness, intransigence, mulishness, 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 in 1600 |