Wilfulness

Quick meaning: Wilfulness is a noun meaning (British spelling) The state or condition of being wilful; stubbornness.

Meaning

(British spelling) The state or condition of being wilful; stubbornness.

Example Sentences

Now Redworth believed in the soul of Diana. For him it burned, and it was a celestial radiance about her, unquenched by her shifting fortunes, her wilfulnesses and, it might be, errors.

If ever I write again, in the sense of producing artistic work, there are just two subjects on which and through which I desire to express myself: one is “Christ as the precursor of the romantic movement in life”: the other is “The artistic life considered in its relation to conduct.” The first is, of course, intensely fascinating, for I see in Christ not merely the essentials of the supreme romantic type, but all the accidents, the wilfulnesses even, of the romantic temperament also.

Word Forms

• wilfulnesses
• willfulness

Synonyms for wilfulness

Depending on context, synonyms include unruliness, willfulness, fractiousness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include willfulness, unruliness, fractiousness, deliberation, wilful, advisement.

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