Obstinacy vs Pertinacity - What's the difference?
obstinacy | pertinacity |
The state, or an act, of stubbornness or doggedness.
The state or characteristic of being pertinacious.
*1846 , E.A.Poe,
*:With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase. It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend.
*1851 , , The House of Seven Gables , ch. 19:
*:Again and again, however, and half a dozen other agains, with the inexorable pertinacity of a child intent upon some object important to itself, did he renew his efforts for admittance.
As nouns the difference between obstinacy and pertinacity
is that obstinacy is the state, or an act, of stubbornness or doggedness while pertinacity is the state or characteristic of being pertinacious.obstinacy
English
Noun
- He finished only through a mixture of determined obstinacy and ingenuity.
