obduracy
Refusal to bend
Obduracy is stubborn refusal to change one's mind or course of action, even in the face of reason or pressure.
The word carries a sense of hardness—someone showing obduracy isn't just persistent but unyieldingly resistant: His obduracy on the issue frustrated everyone at the negotiating table.
It's more formal than stubbornness and often implies the obstinacy is unreasonable.
Unyielding adherence to position
- pigheadednessStubborn refusal to yield
- bullheadednessStubborn persistence despite reason
- mulishnessUnyielding resistance to persuasion
- willfulnessIntentional resistance to direction
doggedness · intransigence · pertinacity · recalcitrance · contumacy · perversity · uncooperativeness · self-will
State of being unbending
- adamancyFirm refusal to yield
- implacabilityInability to be appeased
- unbendingnessQuality of being unyielding
- immovabilityInability to be shifted
intractability · unyieldingness · fixedness · firmness · inexorability · relentlessness · uncompromisingness · hardness
Open resistance to authority
- noncomplianceFailure to follow requirements
- refusalAct of declining
- disobedienceRefusal to follow orders
- insubordinationDefying workplace authority
opposition · dissent · nonconformity · rebelliousness · contrariness · rejectionism
obstinacy
Unyielding adherence to position
- pigheadednessStubborn refusal to yield
- bullheadednessStubborn persistence despite reason
- mulishnessUnyielding resistance to persuasion
willfulness · doggedness · intransigence · pertinacity · recalcitrance · contumacy · perversity · uncooperativeness · self-will · single-mindedness
rigidity
State of being unbending
- adamancyFirm refusal to yield
- implacabilityInability to be appeased
- unbendingnessQuality of being unyielding
immovability · intractability · unyieldingness · fixedness · firmness · inexorability · relentlessness · uncompromisingness · hardness · steeliness
defiance
Open resistance to authority
- noncomplianceFailure to follow requirements
- refusalAct of declining
- disobedienceRefusal to follow orders
insubordination · opposition · dissent · nonconformity · rebelliousness · contrariness · rejectionism
- stubbornnessstubbornness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, bullheadedness, mulishness
- coldnesscold, chill, freeze, freezing, coolness
obduracyflexibility
Ability to adapt easily
pliability · yielding · malleability · adaptability · tractability
obduracyopen-mindedness
Acceptance of differing viewpoints
receptiveness · receptivity · broad-mindedness · reasonableness · persuadability
obduracytenderness
Gentle, caring quality
softheartedness · compassion · mercifulness · gentleness · sensitivity