noun

The quality or state of being stubbornly inflexible: die-hardism, grimness, implacability, implacableness, incompliance, incompliancy, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence, intransigency, obduracy, obdurateness, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigidity, rigidness. See resist/yield.

IN BRIEF: Resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires. Also: The trait of being difficult to handle.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. — Louise Erdrich

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome
  Synonyms: obstinacy, obstinance, mulishness

Meaning #2: resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires
  Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will

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Quotes:

"Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow." - Glen Beaman

"A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led." - Alexander Cannon

"Stubbornness is the strength of the weak." - Johann Kaspar Lavater

"Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability." - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect." - Arthur Schopenhauer

Common misspelling(s) of stubbornness

• stubborness