stubbornness

English

Etymology

From stubborn +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstʌbən(n)əs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstʌbɚn(n)əs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

stubbornness (countable and uncountable, plural stubbornnesses)

1. The state of being stubborn.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:obstinacy

   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 190, column 1:

     [H]appy is your Grace / That can tranſlate the ſtubbornneſſe of fortune / Into ſo quiet and ſo ſweet a ſtile.

   • 2015 June 30, Eliott C. McLaughlin, “Despite same-sex marriage ruling, spasms of resistance persist”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Brant Rios and Eos Parish have been dating five years and experienced their state’s stubbornness firsthand Friday when they were the first couple to arrive at the Ouachita Parish Courthouse to be wed – and were the first to be turned away.

Translations

state of being stubborn

• Arabic: عِنَاد m (ʕinād)
• Azerbaijani: inadkarlıq
• Belarusian: упа́ртасць f (upártascʹ)
• Breton: pennegezh (br) f
• Bulgarian: упори́тост (bg) f (uporítost), ина́т (bg) m (inát)
• Catalan: tossuderia f, entercament m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 頑固 / 顽固 (zh) (wángù), 固執 / 固执 (zh) (gùzhí)

• Czech: tvrdohlavost (cs) f
• Danish: stædighed c
• Dutch: halsstarrigheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: obstino sg
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: treiskleiki m, treiskni n, tvørskapur m
• Finnish: itsepäisyys (fi), jääräpäisyys (fi)
• French: entêtement (fr) m
• Galician: teimosía (gl) f
• Georgian: სიჯიუტე (siǯiuṭe), შეუპოვრობა (šeuṗovroba)
• German: Sturheit (de) f
• Greek: πείσμα (el) n (peísma), ισχυρογνωμοσύνη (el) f (ischyrognomosýni), γινάτι (el) n (gináti)
• Hindi: हठधर्मिता (hi) f (haṭhdharmitā), हठधर्म (hi) m (haṭhdharm), हठ (hi) m (haṭh)
• Hungarian: csökönyösség (hu)
• Icelandic: þrjóska f
• Irish: ceanndánacht f
• Italian: cocciutaggine (it) f, testardaggine (it) f, ostinazione (it) f
• Japanese: 頑固 (ja) (がんこ, ganko)
• Kashubian: ùpartosc f
• Korean: 완고 (ko) (wan'go)
• Latin: obstinātiō f
• Macedonian: твр́доглавост f (tvŕdoglavost), сво́еглавост f (svóeglavost), упорност f (upornost), инает m (inaet), инат m (inat)
• Old English: ānwilnes f
• Polish: upór (pl) f, upartość (pl) f
• Portuguese: teimosia (pt) f
• Romanian: încăpățânare (ro) f
• Russian: упря́мство (ru) n (uprjámstvo), упо́рство (ru) n (upórstvo), твердоло́бость (ru) f (tverdolóbostʹ) (colloquial, foolish obstinacy), упёртость (ru) f (upjórtostʹ) (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тврдо̀главо̄ст f, упо́рно̄ст f

  Latin: tvrdòglavōst (sh) f, upórnōst (sh) f

• Slovak: tvrdohlavosť f
• Slovene: trmoglavost f, trma f
• Spanish: testarudez, terquedad (es), cerrazón (es), cabezonería (es)
• Tagalog: kalig-inan, lig-in, baltik
• Thai: ความดื้อรั้น
• Turkish: inatçılık (tr), inat (tr), ısrar (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: عناد (ʿinad), تمرد (temerrüd), اصرار (ısrar)

• Ukrainian: упе́ртість (uk) f (upértistʹ)
• Urdu: ضِد f (zid), اِصْرَار m (isrār)