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willfulness

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will·ful also wil·ful  (wlfl)
adj.
1. Said or done on purpose; deliberate. See Synonyms at voluntary.
2. Obstinately bent on having one's own way.
willful·ly adv.
willful·ness n.
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Noun1.willfulnesswillfulness - the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness
intractability, intractableness - the trait of being hard to influence or control
contrariness, perverseness, perversity - deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
wildness - an unruly disposition to do as one pleases; "Liza had always had a tendency to wildness"; "the element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention"


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Her will was sometimes willfulness, and the ease with which she did most things led her to be impatient of hard tasks or long ones.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
The inveterate willfulness and caprice of his proceedings in these particulars defied every effort to reduce them to a system, and baffled all attempts at calculating on them beforehand.
No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Philander, that I was quite right, as usual; and but for your stubborn willfulness we should have escaped a series of most humiliating, not to say dangerous accidents.
Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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