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obdurateness
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.
[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.]
ob′du·rate·ly adv.ob′du·ra·cy (-do͝or-ə-sē, -dyo͝or-), ob′du·rate·ness n.ThesaurusobduratenessnounThe quality or state of being stubbornly inflexible:die-hardism, grimness, implacability, implacableness, incompliance, incompliancy, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence, intransigency, obduracy, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigidity, rigidness, stubbornness.
obdurateness
Synonyms for obduratenessnoun the quality or state of being stubbornly inflexibleSynonyms- die-hardism
- grimness
- implacability
- implacableness
- incompliance
- incompliancy
- inexorability
- inexorableness
- inflexibility
- inflexibleness
- intransigence
- intransigency
- obduracy
- relentlessness
- remorselessness
- rigidity
- rigidness
- stubbornness
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