obstinacy

English

Alternative forms

• (proscribed) obstinance, obstinancy

Etymology

obstinate +‎ -cy

Pronunciation

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

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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.

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), 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 (yakravī), саркашӣ (sarkašī), инод (inod), қайсарӣ (qaysarī)
• 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