Definition for Stubbornness:

• The quality of being stubborn; contumacy; stiffness; refractoriness.

Synonyms for Stubbornness:

• n.

  •
  • resist.
  •bullheadedness (noun)
  • head strongness,
  • head-strongnesses,
  • self will,
  • headstrongnesses,
  • selfwills,
  • head strongnesses,
  • self wills,
  • head-strongness,
  • self-wills,
  • bullheadedness,
  • selfwill.
  •contempt (noun)
  • neglect,
  • hatred,
  • Despisement,
  • mockery.
  •decision (noun)
  • obstinances,
  • purposivenesses,
  • re-solve,
  • will powers,
  • re-solves,
  • re solves,
  • re solve,
  • iron wills.
  •defiance (noun)
  • defiance,
  • dissent,
  • contravention,
  • affront,
  • resistance,
  • dissension,
  • obstinacy,
  • counteraction,
  • insurgency,
  • insubordination,
  • confrontation,
  • insolence,
  • rebelliousness,
  • audacity,
  • boldness,
  • attack,
  • temerity,
  • recalcitrance.
  •determination (noun)
  • perseverance,
  • pertinacity,
  • doggedness,
  • adamancy,
  • inflexibility,
  • contumacy,
  • pigheadedness.
  •disobedience (noun)
  • Insubmission,
  • Insurgence,
  • mutiny,
  • Non-observance,
  • nonobservance,
  • indiscipline,
  • waywardness.
  •fanaticism (noun)
  • extremism,
  • partiality,
  • immoderation,
  • injustice,
  • in justice,
  • zealotry,
  • willfulness,
  • obsessiveness,
  • illiberality,
  • illiberalities,
  • monomania,
  • arbitrariness,
  • violence,
  • Incorrigibility,
  • dogma.
  •perseverance (noun)
  • determination.
  •resolution (noun)
  • dauntlessness,
  • decisiveness,
  • stamina,
  • bravery,
  • devotion,
  • sand,
  • moxie,
  • heartiness,
  • indefatigability,
  • spunk,
  • tenacity,
  • trueness,
  • courageousness,
  • faithfulness,
  • tirelessness,
  • backbone,
  • steadfastness,
  • diligence,
  • grit,
  • fortitude,
  • Stoniness,
  • staunchness,
  • fervency.
  •unwillingness (noun)
  • contrariness,
  • distaste,
  • reluctance,
  • opposition,
  • Averseness,
  • disinclination,
  • repugnance,
  • Repellency,
  • unwillingness,
  • balkiness,
  • noncooperation.

• Other synonyms:

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  • inexorability,
  • inexorableness,
  • intransigence,
  • obduracy,
  • rigidity,
  • intransigency,
  • incompliancy,
  • inflexibleness,
  • grimness,
  • relentlessness,
  • remorselessness,
  • die-hardism,
  • Incompliance,
  • obdurateness,
  • Implacableness,
  • rigidness.
  •
  • Implacability,
  • narrowness.
  •rigidity
  • rigor.

Paraphrases for Stubbornness:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    obstinacy.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    stamina, resilience.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    persistence, tenacity, intransigence, steadfastness, insistence, perseverance, determination, intransigent, diehard.

Antonyms for Stubbornness:

• n.

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

Stubbornness Sentence Examples:

• Even this menace proved fruitless; and after thus fairly exposing to the Court of Naples the consequence of its own stubbornness, Victor Emmanuel let loose against it the revolutionary forces of Garibaldi.

• And this stubbornness, when he was doing the very thing that would give him to her utterly, seemed to him unreasonable.