Perverseness is a related term of contumacy.
As nouns the difference between perverseness and contumacy
is that perverseness is the quality of being perverse; obstinacy or doggedness while contumacy is disobedience, resistance to authority.
perverseness
English
Noun
The quality of being perverse; obstinacy or doggedness
contumacy
English
Noun
(-)
disobedience, resistance to authority
Derived terms
* contumacious