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Webster 1828 Edition

Stubbornness

STUBBORNNESS

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Noun.

1.

Perverse and unreasonable obstinacy; inflexibility; contumacy.

Stubbornness and obstinate disobedience must be mastered with blows.

2.

Stiffness; want of pliancy.

3.

Refractoriness, as of ores.

Definition 2024

stubbornness

stubbornness

English

Noun

stubbornness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural stubbornnesses)

The state of being stubborn.

Synonyms

See also Wikisaurus:obstinacy

Translations

state of being stubborn

Chinese:
Mandarin: 頑固 (zh), 顽固 (zh) ‎(wángù), 固執 (zh), 固执 (zh) ‎(gùzhí)
Czech: tvrdohlavost f
Danish: stædighed
Finnish: itsepäisyys (fi)
French: entêtement (fr)
German: Sturheit (de) f
Hungarian: csökönyösség (hu)
Icelandic: þrjóska f
Italian: cocciutaggine (it) f, testardaggine (it) f, ostinazione (it) f

Kashubian: ùpartosc f
Macedonian: твр́доглавост f ‎(tvŕdoglavost), сво́еглавост f ‎(svóeglavost), у́порност f ‎(úpornost)
Polish: upór (pl) f, upartość (pl) f
Portuguese: teimosia (pt) f
Romanian: încăpățânare (ro) f
Russian: упря́мство (ru) n ‎(uprjámstvo), упо́рство (ru) n ‎(upórstvo)
Spanish: testarudez, terquedad (es)
Tagalog: kalig-inan, lig-in, baltik
Turkish: inatçılık (tr)