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obstinacynoun a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasionthe mindless obstinacy of those people who continue to insist that the earth is flat bullheadedness, doggedness, hardheadedness, intransigence, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, 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 the 14th century |