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noun
The quality of being perverse; doggedness, obstinacy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
deliberately deviating from what is good
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: perversity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: evil, evilness
noun
deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: contrariness, perversity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unruliness, fractiousness, willfulness, wilfulness
Narrower terms: cussedness, orneriness
History
Etymology tree English perverse Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English perverseness From perverse + -ness.
