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contrariness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun contrariness has 2 senses
- contrariness(n = noun.attribute) perverseness, perversity - deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline; Array is a kind of fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness
- contrariness(n = noun.attribute) crankiness, crotchetiness, grumpiness - a fussy and eccentric disposition; Array is a kind of ill nature
has particulars: cussedness, orneriness
Derived form adjective contrary3
CIDE DICTIONARY
contrariness, n.
state or quality of being contrary; opposition; inconsistency; contrariety; perverseness; obstinacy. [1913 Webster]
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