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willfulnessnoun a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasionher unceasing willfulness eventually wore down her critics and opponents bullheadedness, doggedness, hardheadedness, intransigence, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, obstinateness, opinionatedness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pigheadedness, self-opinionatedness, self-will, stubbornness 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 refusal to obeythe trainer was able to correct our dog's willfulness balkiness, contrariness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, insubordination, intractability, obstreperousness, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, unruliness, waywardness civil disobedience, noncooperationdiscourteousness, disrespect, impertinence, impoliteness, impudence, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, insolence, rudeness, ungraciousnessdoggedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, obstinateness, peevishness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perversity, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness, tenaciousness, tenacityknavery, mischievousness, naughtiness compliance, obedience, submission, subordinateness, subordination, tractability, tractableness agreeability, amenability, amiabilityslavishness, submissiveness, subservience, subserviencytrainabilitydeference, docility, dutifulness |