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perverseness
per·verse P0214300 (pər-vûrs′, pûr′vûrs′)adj.1. Contrary to what is right or good; wicked or depraved: a perverse world of sinners.2. a. Characterized by or resulting from willful opposition or resistance to what is right, expected, or reasonable: "Geneticists have the perverse habit of naming genes by what goes wrong when they mutate" (Richard Dawkins).b. Willfully opposing or resisting what is right, expected, or reasonable: an understanding of the text that only a perverse reader could reach.3. Having an effect opposite to what is intended or expected: "Regulation [of child care] to increase quality may have the perverse effect of driving some children into unregulated care" (Kathryn M. Neckerman).
[Middle English pervers, from Old French, from Latin perversus, past participle of pervertere, to pervert; see pervert.]
per·verse′ly adv.per·verse′ness n.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | perverseness - deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or disciplinecontrariness, perversityfractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness - the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of disciplinecussedness, orneriness - meanspirited disagreeable contrariness | | 2. | perverseness - deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism"perversityevilness, evil - the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world" |
perversenessnounThe quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding:bullheadedness, doggedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinateness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perversity, pigheadedness, tenaciousness, tenacity, willfulness.Translationsperverse (pəˈvəːs) adjective1. continuing to do, think etc something which one knows, or which one has been told, is wrong or unreasonable. a perverse child. 堅持錯誤的，任性的 执拗的，任性的 2. deliberately wrong; unreasonable. perverse behaviour. 剛愎自用的，乖戾的，故意作對的 反常的，背理的，不通情理的 perˈversely adverb 倔強地 倔强地perˈverseness noun 倔強 倔强perˈversity noun 反常，剛愎 反常
perverseness
Synonyms for perversenessnoun the quality or state of being stubbornly unyieldingSynonyms- bullheadedness
- doggedness
- hardheadedness
- mulishness
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- pertinaciousness
- pertinacity
- perversity
- pigheadedness
- tenaciousness
- tenacity
- willfulness
Synonyms for perversenessnoun deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or disciplineSynonymsRelated Words- fractiousness
- unruliness
- wilfulness
- willfulness
- cussedness
- orneriness
noun deliberately deviating from what is goodSynonymsRelated Words |