obduracy

ob·du·rate

O0005600 (ŏb′do͝o-rĭt, -dyo͝o-)adj.1. Not changing in response to argument or other influence; obstinate or intractable: "Everyone in the region has been obdurate in water negotiations with everyone else" (Marq de Villiers).2. a. Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent: "obdurate conscience of the old sinner" (Sir Walter Scott).b. Hardened against feeling; hardhearted: an obdurate miser.

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[Middle English obdurat, from Late Latin obdūrātus, past participle of obdūrāre, to harden, from Latin, to be hard, endure : ob-, intensive pref.; see ob- + dūrus, hard; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]

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ob′du·rate·ly adv.ob′du·ra·cy (-do͝or-ə-sē, -dyo͝or-), ob′du·rate·ness n.

ob•du•ra•cy

(ˈɒb dʊ rə si, -dyʊ-)

n. the state or quality of being obdurate. [1590–1600]

obduracy

the state or condition of being obstinate or hardhearted. — obdurate, adj.See also: Attitudes

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

obduracy - resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexibleadamance, unyieldingnessfirmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolve, firmness, resolution - the trait of being resolute; "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work"

obduracy

nounThe quality or state of being stubbornly inflexible:die-hardism, grimness, implacability, implacableness, incompliance, incompliancy, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence, intransigency, obdurateness, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigidity, rigidness, stubbornness.

Translations

Halsstarrigkeitcaparbiet...inflessibilitàostinazione