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pertinaciousnessnoun a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasionthanks to his pertinaciousness, he eventually succeeded where all others had failed bullheadedness, doggedness, hardheadedness, intransigence, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, obstinateness, opinionatedness, 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 |