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Obstinacy vs Cussedness - What's the difference?

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Obstinacy is a synonym of cussedness.


As nouns the difference between obstinacy and cussedness

is that obstinacy is the state, or an act, of stubbornness or doggedness while cussedness is (dated) the state or quality of being cussed.

obstinacy

English

Noun

  • The state, or an act, of stubbornness or doggedness.
    • He finished only through a mixture of determined obstinacy and ingenuity.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    cussedness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (dated) The state or quality of being cussed.
  • * , "Frenchman's Creek":
    • Well, if ever a man was born bad in his temper, 'twas Captain Bligh. . . . They made an Admiral of him in the end, but they never cured his cussedness .
  • * 1910 , , Burning Daylight , ch.11:
    • Full of vinegar and all-round cussedness , but without malice. Just as soon kill you as not, but in a playful sort of way, you understand, without meaning to at all.
  • * 1922 , , The Trail of the White Mule , ch. 2:
    • He made camp there that night, pitching his little tent in the trail for pure cussedness , and defying aloud a traveling world to make him move until he got good and ready.

    Synonyms

    * cantankerousness, nastiness, obstinacy, orneriness, perversity

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