obstinance
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Noun | 1. | obstinance - the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome intractability, intractableness - the trait of being hard to influence or control |
2. | obstinance - resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolve, firmness, resolution - the trait of being resolute; "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work" impenitence, impenitency - the trait of refusing to repent intransigence, intransigency - the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise |
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