noun
- The quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding: bullheadedness, doggedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obstinacy, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, tenaciousness, tenacity, willfulness. See resist/yield.
- The quality or condition of being unruly: disorderliness, fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstreperousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, unruliness, untowardness, wildness. See control/uncontrol, order/disorder, peace/conflict, resist/yield.
