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Obstinacy vs Obduracy - What's the difference?

obstinacy | obduracy |

As nouns the difference between obstinacy and obduracy

is that obstinacy is the state, or an act, of stubbornness or doggedness while obduracy is the state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible.

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

    obduracy

    English

    Noun

    (obduracies)
  • The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible.
  • *1598 , , King Henry IV Part 2 , act 2, scene 2,
  • *:Thou thinkest me as far in the devil's
    book as thou and Falstaff for obduracy and
    persistency.
  • *1713 , Nehemiah Walter, A discourse concerning the wonderfulness of Christ , Eleazer Phillips (Boston), page 156,
  • *:It might also serve to condemn the obduracy and hard-heartedness of the Jews, who relented not, when even the earth trembled and the rocks rent.
  • *1812 , , "On Leaving London for Wales," ln 5-6,
  • *:True mountain Liberty alone may heal
    The pain which Custom's obduracies bring.
  • *2007 , Simon Hughes, " Chanderpaul finally outwitted by master" Telegraph.co.uk, 20 June,
  • *:Chanderpaul's obduracy might have broken lesser men, but Panesar more than matched him for relentlessness.

    • Related terms

    *obdurate

    References

    * * * *Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989)