perverseness

  • 131perverse — adjective continuing to behave in an unreasonable way, especially by deliberately doing the opposite of what people want you to do: He gets some kind of perverse satisfaction from embarrassing people. perversely adverb perverseness noun (U) …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 132arbitrariness — n 1. capriciousness, whimsicalness, whimsicality, unreasonableness; willfulness, stubbornness, perverseness, mulishness, obstinacy, intransigence. 2. imperiousness, magisterialness, domineeringness, overbearingness, high handedness,… …

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