- obstinacy
- n1. inflexibility, immovability, stiff-neckedness, Inf. hardcoreness; inexorableness, implacability, intransigence, intractability, unyieldingness; unmalleability, unpersuadability, uninfluenceability, unswayability, unpliability.2. stubbornness, mulishness, muleheadedness, pig-headedness, bullheadedness, bullishness, headstrongness; willfulness, contrariness, perverseness, wrong-headedness, balkiness, uncooperativeness, frowardness, refractoriness, recalcitrance, contumacy, contumaciousness, U.S. Inf. notionateness, Inf. cussedness, Archaic. untowardness; ungovernability, unmanageability, uncontrollability, difficultness, restiveness, unruliness, waywardness, fractiousness, incorrigibleness.3. persistence, perseverance, pertinacity, tenacity, tenaciousness, bulldog tenacity, bulldoggedness, dog-gedness, unrelentingness, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose; staying power, Inf. stick-to-it-iveness.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.