stubbornness

Other forms of stubbornness

plural

stubbornnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stubbornness

What does stubbornness mean?

stubbornness means "the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stubbornness?

stubbornness has 3 syllables: stub-born-ness. The stress falls on "stub". In IPA it is /ˈstʌbɚnnəs/.

What is another word for stubbornness?

Close synonyms include obstinacy, obstinance, mulishness, bullheadedness, obstinacy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stubbornness a common word?

stubbornness is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.