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  • 121inflexibility — n. 1. Stiffness, inflexibleness. 2. Pertinacity, doggedness, stubbornness, obstinacy. 3. Firmness, resolution, perseverance, tenacity of purpose …

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  • 122mulishness — n. Stubbornness, doggedness, obstinacy …

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  • 123obduracy — n. 1. Contumacy, stubbornness, doggedness, hardness of heart, obstinacy. 2. Impenitence, depravity …

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  • 124obstinacy — n. 1. Stubbornness, doggedness, headiness, wilfulness, perversity, contumacy, obduracy, inflexibility, pertinacity, persistency, firmness, resoluteness. 2. Fixedness, immovability, stubbornness, tenacity, tenaciousness …

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  • 125persistence — n.; (also persistency) 1. See perseverance. 2. Obstinacy, contumacy, doggedness, stubbornness, perverseness, pertinacity, obduracy, headiness, pig headedness. 3. Continuance, continuation …

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  • 126pertinacity — n. 1. Resolution, determination, steadiness, constancy, inflexibility, firmness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacy, tenacity of purpose. 2. Stubbornness, obstinacy, wilfulness, doggedness, headiness, mulishness, persistence,… …

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  • 127self-will — n. Wilfulness, stubbornness, doggedness, obstinacy, pig headedness …

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  • 128dogged — adjective dogged actions or behaviour show that you are very determined to continue doing something: her dogged determination to succeed doggedly adverb doggedness noun (U) …

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