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WILLFULNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
Synonyms:
fractiousness; unruliness; wilfulness; willfulness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("willfulness" is a kind of...):
intractability; intractableness (the trait of being hard to influence or control)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "willfulness"):
contrariness; perverseness; perversity (deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline)
wildness (an unruly disposition to do as one pleases)
Derivation:
willful (habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition)
