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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline;
[syn: unruliness, fractiousness, willfulness, wilfulness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Willful \Will"ful\, a. [Will + full.] [Written also wilful.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder. --Foxe. [1913 Webster] In willful poverty chose to lead his life. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who, for my willful crime, art banished hence. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as, a willful man or horse. [1913 Webster] -- Will"ful*ly, adv. -- Will"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

willfulness n 1: the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline [syn: unruliness, fractiousness, willfulness, wilfulness]