Synonyms and related words :
adhesiveness, antipathy, application, assiduity, assiduousness, averseness, aversion, backwardness, balkiness, bigotry, bulldog tenacity, bullheadedness, cantankerousness, cohesiveness, concentration, consistency, constancy, contempt, contumaciousness, contumacy, cursoriness, defiance, defiance of authority, despite, determination, diligence, disagreement, disinclination, disobedience, disrelish, dissent, distaste, dogged perseverance, doggedness, dogmatism, durability, endurance, engrossment, fanaticism, fidelity, firmness, fixed mind, foot-dragging, fractiousness, fundamentalism, gluiness, glutinosity, grudging consent, grudgingness, gumminess, hardheadedness, hardiness, hardness, headstrongness, immovability, immutability, impliability, indefatigability, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, inductility, industriousness, industry, inelasticity, inexorability, inextensibility, inflexibility, inflexible will, infrangibility, insistence, insistency, intolerance, intractability, intractableness, irresilience, irresiliency, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, lastingness, leatherlikeness, loyalty, mulishness, mutinousness, nolition, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opinionatedness, opposition, orneriness, orthodoxy, overzealousness, patience, patience of Job, perfunctoriness, permanence, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pigheadedness, plodding, plugging, precisianism, preoccupation, purism, puritanism, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, refractoriness, refusal, relentlessness, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repugnance, resistance, resolution, restiveness, retention, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, ropiness, sedulity, sedulousness, self-will, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, slowness, snugness, stability, stamina, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, stiff neck, stiff-neckedness, stiffness, strength, stringiness, strongheadness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tightness, tirelessness, toughness, unalterability, unbendingness, unbreakability, unbreakableness, uncompromisingness, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, unlimberness, unmalleability, unpliability, unregenerateness, unrelentingness, unremittingness, unruliness, unswerving attention, unwillingness, unyieldingness, viscidity, viscosity, vitality, wildness, willfulness