obduracy
1
9.9
- noun
- /ˈɑb.dʒə.rə.si/
:
obstinación
- For these purposes, it does not matter whether the restraint is absolute, as with the non-amendable provisions of the German constitution, or simply the "obduracy" of Article V of the United States constitution, or the temporal constraints requiring successive parliamentary action for constitutional reform, as in some European countries.
Examples
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their silence, their reticence, their wildness, and nonsensical obduracy" (10).
Academic text (2008) -
"A quaver shook his obduracy.
Fiction book (1999) -
Yet I have watched men mark their schemes out of obduracy toward fatal excess.
Fiction book (1991) -
Your obduracy will be your downfall yet, ye children of Mammon.
Fiction book (1996) -
He turned his back to signal that the interview was over, that the petition had been reviewed and denied, and that no less than Torquemada he had been forced to obduracy as a means of containing these people.
Fiction book (1992) -
Under Hyde Park's sleepy guise, the Foreign Car Hospital persists in obduracy against time's backfires and burning carburetors.
Blog text (12) -
Among some female nurses, there is a fear of being thought of as redundant personally and professionally, a dread that betrays itself in sarcasm and obduracy.
Academic text (2002) -
Powerful early work of brute, mechanistic, militaristic obduracy gives way to a period of (strikingly less successful) investigative whimsy.
Blog text (13) -
Johnny's gentleness and pacifism challenge Lawrence's essentialism and tellingly rewrite the obduracy of Natty Bumppo and the American Adam.
Academic text (2012) -
Her obduracy made it difficult for anyone to convince her to change her mind.
Synonyms
52
4.1
Continuing to try despite problems or opposition
21
3.6
Refusing to change your mind or actions even when there are good reasons
10
8.7
Refusal to change your mind or to agree with others
3
7.6
Refusing to change your mind or actions even when others ask you to
2
8.8
Refusal to obey rules or cooperate with people in charge
1
7.9
Refusing to change your mind even when you are wrong
1
7.9
Being stubborn and refusing to change your mind
1
8.3
Refusing to change ideas or plans even when it is not reasonable
The quality of being stubborn and not caring about others
A firm refusal to change an opinion or decision
A refusal to change an opinion or action despite pressure
Refusing to change your views to reach an agreement
Refusing to follow rules or orders
Continuing to try and not giving up when things are difficult
Antonyms
How Stubborn
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word obduracy comes from the Latin parts ob- 'against' and durare 'to harden', the same root you see in durable and endure. So, imagine someone with a 'hard' heart who will not change; obduracy is the quality of being stubborn and refusing to change.