obstinacy

English

Alternative forms

• obstinance, obstinancy (proscribed)

Etymology

From obstinate +‎ -cy.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑbstɪnəsi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒbstɪnəsi/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: ob‧stin‧a‧cy

Noun

obstinacy (countable and uncountable, plural obstinacies)

1. The state, or an act, of stubbornness or doggedness.

   He finished only through a mixture of determined obstinacy and ingenuity.

   • 1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 44, in Oliver Twist:

     "I don't know where," replied the girl.
     "Then I do," said Sikes, more in the spirit of obstinacy than because he had any real objection.

   • 1877, Leo Tolstoy (author), David Magarshack (translator), Anna Karenina, part 6, ch 12,

     His hand closed, he drew back, and his face assumed a still more stubborn expression.

     "For you it's a matter of obstinacy," she said, looking intently at him and suddenly finding the right word for the expression of his face which exasperated her so much.

2. (countable, collective) A group of bison; the collective noun for bison.

Synonyms

• conviction, insistence, recalcitrance, stubbornness, tenacity
• See also Thesaurus:obstinacy

Translations

state of stubbornness

Arabic: عِنَاد m (ʕinād) Armenian: կամակորություն (hy) (kamakorutʻyun) Azerbaijani: inadkarlıq Belarusian: упа́ртасць f (upártascʹ) Bulgarian: упори́тост (bg) f (uporítost), ина́т (bg) m (inát) Catalan: obstinació f Chinese: Mandarin: 頑固 / 顽固 (zh) (wángù) Czech: tvrdohlavost (cs) f Esperanto: obstineco, obstino Finnish: itsepäisyys (fi), itsepintaisuus (fi) French: entêtement (fr) m, obstination (fr) f Galician: teima (gl) f, teimosía (gl) f, touñada f, piturra f, gurra f, tercura f German: Sturheit (de) f, Eigensinn (de) m Greek: πείσμα (el) n (peísma), ισχυρογνωμοσύνη (el) f (ischyrognomosýni), γινάτι (el) n (gináti) Hindi: हठ (hi) m (haṭh), हठधर्मिता (hi) f (haṭhdharmitā), ज़िद m (zid) Hungarian: csökönyösség (hu) Italian: testardaggine (it) f, ostinazione (it) f Japanese: 頑固 (ja) (がんこ, ganko), 意地 (ja) (いじ, iji) Korean: 완고 (ko) (wan'go) Latin: obstinātiō f Macedonian: твр́доглавост f (tvŕdoglavost), сво́еглавост f (svóeglavost), упорност f (upornost), инает m (inaet), инат m (inat) Malayalam: മർക്കടമുഷ്ടി (ml) (maṟkkaṭamuṣṭi) Ottoman Turkish: عناد (ʿinad), تمرد (temerrüd), اصرار (ısrar) Persian: لجاجت (fa) (lajâjat), معاندت (fa) (mo'ânadat), عناد (fa) ('enâd) Plautdietsch: Ieejensenn m Polish: upartość (pl) f, upór (pl) f Portuguese: obstinação (pt) f Romanian: încăpățânare (ro) f, obstinație (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 f, porfía (es) f, terquedad (es) f, obstinación (es) f Tajik: якравӣ (yakravi), саркашӣ (sarkaši), инод (inod), қайсарӣ (qaysari) Turkish: inatçılık (tr), inat (tr) Ukrainian: упе́ртість (uk) f (upértistʹ) Uzbek: oʻjarlik (uz), qaysarlik (uz), sarkashlik (uz) Vietnamese: sự ngoan cố (vi), sự cố chấp (vi)

See also

• determination, perseverance