English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] stubborn -ness
Pronunciation [ edit ] stubbornness (countable and uncountable plural stubbornnesses
The state of being stubborn .
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:obstinacy What is stubbornness ? It is not only refusing to believe a crucial message, but also shunning or at least looking down on those, who stated or believed it in the first place.
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.
Translations [ edit ] 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
German: Sturheit (de) f
Greek: πείσμα (el) n ( peísma ) , ισχυρογνωμοσύνη (el) f ( ischyrognomosýni ) , γινάτι (el) n ( gináti )
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
Ottoman Turkish: عناد ( ʿinad ) , تمرد ( temerrüd ) , اصرار ( ısrar )
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
Roman: tvrdòglavōst (sh) f upórnōst (sh) f
Slovak: tvrdohlavosť f
Slovene: trmoglavost f trma f
Spanish: testarudez terquedad (es) , cerrazón (es) , cabezonería
Tagalog: kalig-inan lig-in baltik
Thai: ความดื้อรั้น
Turkish: inatçılık (tr)
Ukrainian: упе́ртість (uk) f ( upértistʹ )
Urdu: ضِد f ( zid ) , اِصْرَار m ( isrār )