stubbornness

stubbornness

English

Etymology

stubborn +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

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

Noun

stubbornness (countable and uncountable, plural stubbornnesses)

1. 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.
   Perhaps only when it's found too late for regrets will that person understand.

   • 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 606515358, [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

state of being stubborn

Arabic: عِنَاد‎ m (ʿinād) 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 (zh), 顽固 (zh) (wángù), 固執 (zh), 固执 (zh) (gùzhí) Czech: tvrdohlavost f Danish: stædighed c Dutch: halsstarrigheid (nl) f Estonian: please add this translation if you can Faroese: treiskleiki m, treiskni n, tvørskapur m Finnish: itsepäisyys (fi), jääräpäisyys (fi) French: entêtement (fr) m 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) Korean: 완고 (ko) (wan'go) Kashubian: ùpartosc f 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 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)