headiness
21heady — adjective (headier, headiest) 1》 (of alcohol) potent; intoxicating. 2》 having a strong or exhilarating effect. Derivatives headily adverb headiness noun …
22contumacy — n. 1. Obstinacy, stubbornness, doggedness, perverseness, pertinacity, headiness, obduracy. 2. Disobedience, insubordination, insolence, disrespect …
23obstinacy — n. 1. Stubbornness, doggedness, headiness, wilfulness, perversity, contumacy, obduracy, inflexibility, pertinacity, persistency, firmness, resoluteness. 2. Fixedness, immovability, stubbornness, tenacity, tenaciousness …
24persistence — n.; (also persistency) 1. See perseverance. 2. Obstinacy, contumacy, doggedness, stubbornness, perverseness, pertinacity, obduracy, headiness, pig headedness. 3. Continuance, continuation …
25pertinacity — n. 1. Resolution, determination, steadiness, constancy, inflexibility, firmness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacy, tenacity of purpose. 2. Stubbornness, obstinacy, wilfulness, doggedness, headiness, mulishness, persistence,… …
26contumacy — n 1. perverseness, perversity, perversion, contrariety, frowardness, refractoriness, wrong headedness; obstinacy, stubbornness, mulishness, pig headedness, bullheadedness; willfulness, intractableness, doggedness, obduracy; intransigence,… …
27heady — /ˈhɛdi / (say hedee) adjective (headier, headiest) 1. rashly impetuous. 2. intoxicating. {Middle English he(ve)di. See head (noun), y1} –headily, adverb –headiness, noun …
28heady — adj. (headier, headiest) 1 (of liquor) potent, intoxicating. 2 (of success etc.) likely to cause conceit. 3 (of a person, thing, or action) impetuous, violent. Derivatives: headily adv. headiness n …
