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English
Etymology
From stubborn + -ness.
Pronunciation
Noun
stubbornness (countable and uncountable, plural stubbornnesses)
- The state of being stubborn.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:obstinacy
What is stubbornness? It is not only refusing to believe a crucial message, but also shunning or at least looking down on those, who stated or believed it in the first place.
Perhaps only when it's found too late for regrets will that person understand.
c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 190, column 1:[H]appy is your Grace / That can tranſlate the ſtubbornneſſe of fortune / Into ſo quiet and ſo ſweet a ſtile.
Translations
state of being stubborn
- Arabic: عِنَاد m (ʕinād)
- Azerbaijani: inadkarlıq
- Belarusian: упа́ртасць f (upártascʹ)
- Breton: pennegezh (br) f
- Bulgarian: упори́тост (bg) f (uporítost), ина́т (bg) m (inát)
- Catalan: tossuderia f, entercament m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 頑固/顽固 (zh) (wángù), 固執/固执 (zh) (gùzhí)
- Czech: tvrdohlavost (cs) f
- Danish: stædighed c
- Dutch: halsstarrigheid (nl) f
- Esperanto: obstino sg
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Faroese: treiskleiki m, treiskni n, tvørskapur m
- Finnish: itsepäisyys (fi), jääräpäisyys (fi)
- French: entêtement (fr) m
- Galician: teimosía (gl) f
- German: Sturheit (de) f
- Greek: πείσμα (el) n (peísma), ισχυρογνωμοσύνη (el) f (ischyrognomosýni), γινάτι (el) n (gináti)
- Hungarian: csökönyösség (hu)
- Icelandic: þrjóska f
- Irish: ceanndánacht f
- Italian: cocciutaggine (it) f, testardaggine (it) f, ostinazione (it) f
- Japanese: 頑固 (ja) (がんこ, ganko)
- Kashubian: ùpartosc f
- Korean: 완고 (ko) (wan'go)
- Latin: obstinātiō f
- Macedonian: твр́доглавост f (tvŕdoglavost), сво́еглавост f (svóeglavost), упорност f (upornost), инает m (inaet), инат m (inat)
- Old English: ānwilnes f
- Ottoman Turkish: عناد (ʿinad), تمرد (temerrüd), اصرار (ısrar)
- Polish: upór (pl) f, upartość (pl) f
- Portuguese: teimosia (pt) f
- Romanian: încăpățânare (ro) f
- Russian: упря́мство (ru) n (uprjámstvo), упо́рство (ru) n (upórstvo), твердоло́бость (ru) f (tverdolóbostʹ) (colloquial, foolish obstinacy), упёртость (ru) f (upjórtostʹ) (colloquial)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: тврдо̀главо̄ст f, упо́рно̄ст f
- Roman: tvrdòglavōst (sh) f, upórnōst (sh) f
- Slovak: tvrdohlavosť f
- Slovene: trmoglavost f, trma f
- Spanish: testarudez, terquedad (es), cerrazón (es), cabezonería (es)
- Tagalog: kalig-inan, lig-in, baltik
- Thai: ความดื้อรั้น
- Turkish: inatçılık (tr)
- Ukrainian: упе́ртість (uk) f (upértistʹ)
- Urdu: ضِد f (zid), اِصْرَار m (isrār)
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