Obstinacy

Noun

 * 1) The state, or an act, of stubbornness or doggedness.
 * He finished only through a mixture of determined obstinacy and ingenuity.

Synonyms

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Adjectives for Obstinacy
senile; dogged; brutal; sheer; wrong-headed; inveterate; hellish; lawless; sufficient; desperate; gentle; suicidal; natural; surprising; misdirected; inflexible; unyielding; invincible; somber.

Verbs for Obstinacy
adhere with—; attack by—; break—; fatigue—; fight with—; harden into—; induce —; maintain—; narrow into—; rebuke—; relent—; repent—; steel with—; stiffen in —; —conquers; —disconcerts; —endures; —inflames; —perseveres; —persists; —petrifies; —resists; —smothers; —sulks.

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * German: Sturheit, Eiegnsinn
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian:, своеглавост,  ,  инает


 * Romanian: încăpăţânare,
 * Russian: упрямство, упорство
 * Spanish: testarudez,, terquedad,