Synonyms of bullheadedness

bullheadedness

noun

as in persistence

a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion

bullheadedness runs in that family

Synonyms & Similar Words

• persistence
• stubbornness
• pigheadedness
• persistency
• intransigence
• obstinacy
• obduracy
• doggedness
• resolve
• willfulness
• hardheadedness
• determination
• pertinacity
• self-will
• obdurateness
• mulishness
• obstinateness
• wrongheadedness
• pertinaciousness
• opinionatedness
• adamance
• defiance
• self-opinionatedness
• steadfastness
• tenacity
• perseverance
• inflexibility
• perversity
• waywardness
• rebelliousness
• tenaciousness
• single-mindedness
• perverseness
• implacability
• adamancy
• inexorability
• sternness
• rigidity
• relentlessness
• anal-retentiveness
• cussedness
• strictness
• hardness
• inveteracy
• narrow-mindedness
• rigidness
• recalcitrance
• firmness
• intractability
• cantankerousness
• stick-to-itiveness
• insubordination
• bloody-mindedness
• disobedience
• rigorousness
• contrariness
• unruliness
• immovability
• contumacy
• refractoriness
• recalcitrancy
• frowardness
• immovableness
• obstreperousness
• balkiness
• rigor

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reasonableness
• acquiescence
• receptivity
• acceptance
• receptiveness
• flexibility
• reasonability
• pliancy
• pliability
• obedience
• compliance
• willingness
• subordination
• open-mindedness
• docility
• broad-mindedness
• surrender
• submission
• yielding
• subservience
• pliantness
• pliableness
• slavishness
• subserviency
• subordinateness