WILFULNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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 ("wilfulness" is a kind of...):

intractability; intractableness (the trait of being hard to influence or control)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wilfulness"):

contrariness; perverseness; perversity (deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline)

wildness (an unruly disposition to do as one pleases)

Derivation:

wilful (habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition)