| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding: bullheadedness, doggedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obstinateness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, tenaciousness, tenacity, willfulness. See RESIST. 2. The quality or condition of being unruly: disorderliness, fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinateness, obstreperousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, unruliness, untowardness, wildness. See CONTROL, ORDER, PEACE, RESIST.
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