stubbornness

English edit

Etymology edit

stubborn +‎ -ness

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstʌbən(n)əs/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstʌbɚn(n)əs/

Noun edit

stubbornness (countable and uncountable, plural stubbornnesses)

The state of being stubborn.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:obstinacy

What is stubbornness? It is not only refusing to believe a crucial message, but also shunning or at least looking down on those, who stated or believed it in the first place.
Perhaps only when it's found too late for regrets will that person understand.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 190, column 1:
  [H]appy is your Grace / That can tranſlate the ſtubbornneſſe of fortune / Into ſo quiet and ſo ſweet a ſtile.

Translations edit

state of being stubborn

Arabic: عِنَاد m (ʕinād)
Azerbaijani: inadkarlıq
Belarusian: упа́ртасць f (upártascʹ)
Breton: pennegezh (br) f
Bulgarian: упори́тост (bg) f (uporítost), ина́т (bg) m (inát)
Catalan: tossuderia f, entercament m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 頑固／顽固 (zh) (wángù), 固執／固执 (zh) (gùzhí)
Czech: tvrdohlavost (cs) f
Danish: stædighed c
Dutch: halsstarrigheid (nl) f
Esperanto: obstino sg
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: treiskleiki m, treiskni n, tvørskapur m
Finnish: itsepäisyys (fi), jääräpäisyys (fi)
French: entêtement (fr) m
Galician: teimosía (gl) f
German: Sturheit (de) f
Greek: πείσμα (el) n (peísma), ισχυρογνωμοσύνη (el) f (ischyrognomosýni), γινάτι (el) n (gináti)
Hungarian: csökönyösség (hu)
Icelandic: þrjóska f
Irish: ceanndánacht f
Italian: cocciutaggine (it) f, testardaggine (it) f, ostinazione (it) f
Japanese: 頑固 (ja) (がんこ, ganko)
Kashubian: ùpartosc f
Korean: 완고 (ko) (wan'go)
Latin: obstinātiō f
Macedonian: твр́доглавост f (tvŕdoglavost), сво́еглавост f (svóeglavost), упорност f (upornost), инает m (inaet), инат m (inat)
Old English: ānwilnes f
Ottoman Turkish: عناد (ʿinad), تمرد (temerrüd), اصرار (ısrar)
Polish: upór (pl) f, upartość (pl) f
Portuguese: teimosia (pt) f
Romanian: încăpățânare (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, terquedad (es), cerrazón (es), cabezonería
Tagalog: kalig-inan, lig-in, baltik
Thai: ความดื้อรั้น
Turkish: inatçılık (tr)
Ukrainian: упе́ртість (uk) f (upértistʹ)
Urdu: ضِد f (zid), اِصْرَار m (isrār)