obstinacy

1 the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome [syn: stubbornness, obstinance, mulishness]

2 resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires [syn: stubbornness, bullheadedness, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will]

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Noun

1. The state, or an act, of stubbornness or doggedness.

   He finished only through a mixture of determined obstinacy and ingenuity.

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adhesiveness, antagonism, antipathy, application, assiduity, assiduousness, averseness, aversion, backwardness, bad blood, bloody-mindedness, bulldog tenacity, bullheadedness, cantankerousness, challenge, clashing, cohesiveness, collision, combative reaction, commitment, competition, complaint, concentration, conflict, consistency, constancy, contrariety, contrariness, contumaciousness, contumacy, counteraction, cross-purposes, cursoriness, decidedness, decision, decisiveness, dedication, defiance, defiance of authority, definiteness, demur, determinateness, determination, determinedness, devotion, diligence, disaccord, disagreement, disinclination, disobedience, dispute, disrelish, dissension, dissent, dissentience, distaste, dogged perseverance, doggedness, earnestness, endurance, energy, engrossment, enmity, fidelity, firmness, fixedness, foot-dragging, force, fortitude, fractiousness, friction, frowardness, fundamentalism, gluiness, glutinosity, grudging consent, grudgingness, gumminess, guts, gutsiness, hardiness, hardness, heartiness, hostility, imperviousness, impliability, indefatigability, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, industriousness, industry, inexorability, inflexibility, inimicalness, insistence, insistency, intestinal fortitude, intractability, intractableness, intransigence, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, loyalty, lustihood, lustiness, might, mightiness, mulishness, mutinousness, negativeness, negativism, nolition, noncooperation, obduracy, obdurateness, objection, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opposition, oppugnancy, orneriness, orthodoxy, passive resistance, patience, patience of Job, perfunctoriness, permanence, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, plodding, plugging, potency, power, powerfulness, precisianism, preoccupation, protest, purism, puritanism, purpose, purposefulness, reaction, rebelliousness, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, refractoriness, refusal, relentlessness, reluctance, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, resistance, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, resolvedness, restiveness, retention, revolt, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, rivalry, robustness, ruggedness, sedulity, sedulousness, self-will, seriousness, sincerity, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, slowness, snugness, stability, stalwartness, stamina, stand, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, sticking power, stiffness, stolidity, stoutness, strength, strength of will, stubbornness, sturdiness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tightness, tirelessness, total commitment, toughness, unbendingness, uncompromisingness, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, unimpressionability, uninfluenceability, unmovability, unpersuadability, unreceptiveness, unrelentingness, unremittingness, unresponsiveness, unruliness, unsuggestibility, unsusceptibility, unswayableness, unswerving attention, unwillingness, unyieldingness, vigor, vigorousness, viscidity, viscosity, vitality, vying, wildness, will, withstanding