Obduracy

Synonyms for obduracy:

Sense 1

inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibleness, obdurateness, rigidity, intransigency, Implacableness, grimness, intransigence, relentlessness, die-hardism, rigidness, Incompliance, incompliancy, remorselessness.

Sense 2

Implacability.

rigidity

rigor.

stubbornness

inflexibility.

Other synonyms and related words:

opinionatedness, doggedness, hardheadedness, pertinacity, intransigency, rigidness, mulishness, inflexibility, Incompliance, rigidity, Implacableness, obstinateness, stubbornness, inflexibleness, Implacability, incompliancy, bullheadedness, intransigence, pertinaciousness, grimness, die-hardism, relentlessness, obstinacy, obdurateness, self-opinionatedness, remorselessness, inexorableness, inexorability, rigor.

Sense 1 (noun)

inflexibility, inflexibleness, inexorableness, intransigence, Implacability, relentlessness, stubbornness, rigidness, remorselessness, Implacableness, die-hardism, grimness, rigidity, inexorability, incompliancy, intransigency, Incompliance, obdurateness.

austerity (noun)

rigor.

obduracy (noun)

bullheadedness, inflexibleness, inflexibility, intransigency, unyieldingness, incompliancy, doggedness, die-hardism, pertinacity, mulishness, intransigence, grimness, Implacability, rigidness, obstinacy, Incompliance, inexorableness, rigidity, Implacableness, relentlessness, obdurateness, inexorability, remorselessness, adamance.

obstinacy (noun)

stubbornness.

tenacity (noun)

willfulness.

Usage examples for obduracy:

• The judge's wife quickly opened the window, and then turned to Landolin, and looked at him with the clear, friendly glance before which harshness and obduracy seemed always to disappear. - "Landolin", Berthold Auerbach.
• According to His just judgment He leaves the non- elect to their own wickedness and obduracy." - "Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church", Friedrich Bente.
• First, for Thorwald's sake; for I had been thinking the doctor's obduracy was proving a poor reward for our friend's great kindness to us. - "Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World", James Cowan.