pertinaciousness

English

Etymology

pertinacious +‎ -ness

Noun

pertinaciousness (uncountable)

1. The state or characteristic of being pertinacious.
   • 1805, Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, Penguin Classics, published 1991, →ISBN, page 289:

     I had too much experience of my father's pertinaciousness ever to hope for a change in his views.

Synonyms

• pertinacity

References

• “pertinaciousness”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.