WILLFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does willfulness mean? 

• WILLFULNESS (noun)
  The noun WILLFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline

  Familiarity information: WILLFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILLFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fractiousness; unruliness; wilfulness; willfulness

Hypernyms ("willfulness" is a kind of...):

intractability; intractableness (the trait of being hard to influence or control)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "willfulness"):

contrariness; perverseness; perversity (deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline)

wildness (an unruly disposition to do as one pleases)

Derivation:

willful (habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition)