obstinacy
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- n the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome
- n resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires
- His is an individual engagement based on a personal obstinacy.
- What may at first glance look like shyness or obstinacy is actually something far more complex--and much more interesting.
- Rudd's other great achievement since taking office also required overturning years of government obstinacy: he ratified the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.