willfulness
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Noun (1)
- the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of disciplineSynonyms: unrulinessfractiousnesswilfulnessType of intractability, intractablenessKinds contrariness, wildness
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“willfulness” is listed under Willful.
Will′ful adjective [Written also wilful.]
Origin: Will + full.
1. Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder. or Fox, John Foxe
In willful poverty chose to lead his life.— Geoffrey Chaucer
Thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who, for my willful crime, art banished hence.— John Milton
2. Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as, a willful man or horse.
— Will′wb-a1′>′ful·ly, adverb — Will′wb-a1′>′ful·ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54