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Intransigence vs Obstinate - What's the difference?

intransigence | obstinate |

As a noun intransigence

is unwillingness to change one's views or to agree.

As an adjective obstinate is

stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.

intransigence

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Unwillingness to change one's views or to agree.
    • The intransigence of both sides frustrated the negotiators.
  • * 2013 , Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/gibraltar-falklands-deny-logic-history]
    • The curse has been Spanish ineptitude feeding Gibraltarian intransigence . Border hold-ups are counterproductive to winning hearts and minds, as were blundering Argentinian landings on the outer Falklands.
  • The state of being intransigent.

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    obstinate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
  • * 1686 , , "That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended",
    • From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish
  • Said of inanimate things not easily subdued or removed.
  • * 1927 , ,
    • Now it happened that Kasturbai had again begun getting haemorrhage, and the malady seemed to be obstinate .

    Synonyms

    * bloody-minded, persistent, stubborn, pertinacious * (not easily subdued) persistent, unrelenting, inexorable * See also

    Derived terms

    * obstinately * obstinateness

    Related terms

    * obstinacy

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