Definition for Obduracy:

• resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible

Synonyms for Obduracy:

• n.

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  • resist.
  •adamance (noun)
  • adamance.
  •austerity (noun)
  • harshness,
  • acerbity,
  • sternness,
  • seriousness,
  • coldness,
  • solemnity,
  • stringency,
  • hardness,
  • stiffness,
  • strictness,
  • asperity,
  • gravity.
  •firmness (noun)
  • determination,
  • strength,
  • purposefulness,
  • steadfastness,
  • constancy,
  • decidedness,
  • decision.
  •rigor (noun)
  • precision,
  • ordeal,
  • exactitude,
  • privation,
  • trial,
  • accuracy,
  • thoroughness,
  • hardship,
  • conscientiousness,
  • roughness,
  • difficulty,
  • tribulation,
  • vicissitude,
  • affliction,
  • austerity,
  • intolerance,
  • suffering.
  •stubbornness (noun)
  • indomitabilities.
  •tenacity (noun)
  • grit,
  • resolve,
  • resolution,
  • backbone,
  • resoluteness,
  • spunk,
  • courage,
  • clock,
  • application,
  • intestinal fortitude,
  • starch,
  • willfulness,
  • guttiness,
  • stick-to-itiveness,
  • strength of purpose,
  • true grit,
  • persistence,
  • gutsiness,
  • what it takes,
  • nerve.
  •unyieldingness (noun)
  • unyieldingness.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • astringence,
  • conventionalism,
  • exactness,
  • firmness,
  • fixedness,
  • fixity,
  • formality,
  • formalness,
  • grimness,
  • inclemency,
  • indomitability,
  • inexorability,
  • inexorableness,
  • inflexibility,
  • inflexibleness,
  • intransigence,
  • intransigency,
  • meticulousness,
  • mulishness,
  • obduracy,
  • preciseness,
  • punctiliousness,
  • relentlessness,
  • rigidity,
  • rigidness,
  • rigor,
  • severity,
  • staunchness,
  • stubbornness,
  • tenacity,
  • traditionalism,
  • visitation,
  • Implacability,
  • Implacableness,
  • Inclemencies,
  • Incompliance,
  • exactingness,
  • remorselessness,
  • OBDU,
  • obdurateness,
  • die-hardism,
  • incompliancy,
  • conventionalisms,
  • fixities,
  • purposiveness,
  • in compliance.

Antonyms for Obduracy:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    reasonableness, docility, subordination, surrender, flexibility, submission, acceptance, pliantness, subservience, willingness, open-mindedness, broad-mindedness, reasonability, subordinateness, yielding, obedience, pliancy, pliability, slavishness, acquiescence, receptivity, Subserviency, receptiveness, pliableness, compliance.

Obduracy Sentence Examples:

• It was clear that his obduracy in the matter of taking her down the fall had been due to a regard for her safety.

• The world showed a sudden interest in me; so I took no further interest in the world, but, on the contrary, resented its attentions with unreasonable warmth and obduracy; and my would - be friends I regarded as my very worst enemies.