Obstinateness vs Obstinate - What's the difference?
obstinateness | obstinate |
The characteristic of being obstinate.
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",
Said of inanimate things not easily subdued or removed.
* 1927 , ,
Obstinateness is a derived term of obstinate.
As a noun obstinateness
is the characteristic of being obstinate.As a adjective obstinate is
stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.obstinateness
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Noun
(-)Synonyms
*obstinacy *obstinance *obstinancy *stubbornnessobstinate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish
- Now it happened that Kasturbai had again begun getting haemorrhage, and the malady seemed to be obstinate .