perverseness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being perverse.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

perversity contrariness badness purpose evil determination reluctance persistence fancy wickedness perversion depravity persistency obstinacy awkwardness
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Antonyms

accuracy honor confidence loyalty integrity morality
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Hypernyms

evil evilness wilfulness unruliness fractiousness willfulness

Hyponyms

cussedness orneriness

Examples

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. Jane Austen

Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her. Marguerite Duras

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Edgar Allan Poe

there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

perversedly perversely perversely irritable perversion perversion of spelling perversity