| NOUN | attribute | perverseness, contrariness, perversity | deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline |
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| attribute | perverseness, perversity | deliberately deviating from what is good |
| Meaning | Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline. | |
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| Synonyms | contrariness, perversity | |
| Narrower | cussedness, orneriness | meanspirited disagreeable contrariness |
| Broader | unruliness, fractiousness, willfulness, wilfulness | The trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline |
| Spanish | cabezonería, empecinamiento, obstinación, perversidad, terquedad, tozudez | |
| Catalan | perversitat | |
| Adjectives | perverse | resistant to guidance or discipline / discipline |
| perverse | marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict | |
| Meaning | deliberately deviating from what is good. | |
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| Synonym | perversity | |
| Broader | evil, evilness | The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice |
| Spanish | perversidad | |
| Adjectives | perverse | deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good |
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