Synonyms for obstinacy
ˈɒb stə nə siob·sti·na·cy

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1. obstinacy

   Synonyms:
   approval, comfort, complacency, content, hardness, impenitence, obduracy, self-approval, self-complacency, self-congratulation, stubbornness

   Antonyms:
   compunction, contriteness, contrition, penitence, regret, remorse, repentance, self-condemnation, sorrow

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1. stubbornness, obstinacy, obstinance, mulishnessnoun

   the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome

   Synonyms:
   bullheadedness, obstinance, stubbornness, pigheadedness, mulishness, self-will

2. stubbornness, bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-willnoun

   resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires

   Synonyms:
   self-command, obstinance, mulishness, bullheadedness, will power, willpower, self-control, possession, pigheadedness, stubbornness, self-possession, self-will

Matched Categories

1. • Intractability
   • Resoluteness

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1. obstinacynoun

   Synonyms:
   stubbornness, doggedness, heartiness, wilfulness, perversity, contumacy, obduracy, inflexibility, pertinacity, persistency, pig-headedness

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1. obstinacynoun

   Synonyms:
   incompliance, doggedness, perversity, obduracy, intractability, stubbornness

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1. List of paraphrases for "obstinacy":

   stubbornness, intransigence, recalcitrance, insistence, persistence, tenacity

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How to use obstinacy in a sentence?

1. Clifford V. Villalon:

   Obstinacy is dangerous and destructive when human actions are derailed for good cause.

2. Voltaire, Candide:

   [Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

3. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

   Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.