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Obstinate vs Sickness - What's the difference?

obstinate | sickness |

As an adjective obstinate

is stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.

As a noun sickness is

the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.

obstinate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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",
    • From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish
  • Said of inanimate things not easily subdued or removed.
  • * 1927 , ,
    • Now it happened that Kasturbai had again begun getting haemorrhage, and the malady seemed to be obstinate .

    Synonyms

    * bloody-minded, persistent, stubborn, pertinacious * (not easily subdued) persistent, unrelenting, inexorable * See also

    Derived terms

    * obstinately * obstinateness

    Related terms

    * obstinacy

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    sickness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.
    • I do lament the sickness of the king. -
    Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -.
    Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. -.
  • Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

    • Derived terms

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    Synonyms

    * nausea * disease * illness * infirmity * malady

    Hyponyms

    * car sickness * homesickness * motion sickness

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