All stubbornness synonyms

noun stubbornness

• insubmission — Lack of submission; disobedience.
• despisement — contempt; despisal
• willfulness — deliberate, voluntary, or intentional: The coroner ruled the death willful murder.
• indomitability — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
• extremism — The holding of extreme political or religious views; fanaticism.
• obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
• contempt — If you have contempt for someone or something, you have no respect for them or think that they are unimportant.
• incompliance — not compliant; unyielding.
• fanaticism — fanatical character, spirit, or conduct.
• immovability — incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
• immoderation — lack of moderation.
• headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
• dogmatism — dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
• despites — in spite of; notwithstanding.
• indiscipline — lack of discipline or control: a campus problem of student indiscipline.
• disobedience — lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
• obsessiveness — being, pertaining to, or resembling an obsession: an obsessive fear of illness.
• monomania — (no longer in technical use) a psychosis characterized by thoughts confined to one idea or group of ideas.
• grimness — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
• inexorability — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
• cussedness — cursed.
• nonobservance — absence or lack of observance.
• inexorableness — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
• decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
• arbitrariness — subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one's discretion: an arbitrary decision.
• obstinacy — the quality or state of being obstinate; stubbornness.
• obstinance — The characteristic of being obstinate.
• mulishness — of or like a mule, as being very stubborn, obstinate, or intractable.
• implacability — not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable: an implacable enemy.
• implacableness — The quality of being implacable.
• dourness — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
• intractability — not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate: an intractable disposition.
• zealotry — undue or excessive zeal; fanaticism.
• adamancy — a state of resoluteness
• inflexibility — not flexible; incapable of or resistant to being bent; rigid: an inflexible steel rod.
• waywardness — The quality of being wayward.
• illiberality — narrowminded; bigoted.
• incorrigibility — not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform: incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
• inflexibleness — The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness.
• intransigence — the state or quality of being intransigent, or refusing to compromise or agree; inflexibility: No agreement was reached because of intransigence on both sides.
• intransigency — a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
• determination — Determination is the quality that you show when you have decided to do something and you will not let anything stop you.
• obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
• contrariness — opposite in nature or character; diametrically or mutually opposed: contrary to fact; contrary propositions.