orneriness vs perverseness

orneriness and perverseness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
orneriness	Yes	No	No	No
perverseness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, perverseness is a hypernym of orneriness; that is, perverseness is a word with a broader meaning than orneriness:

orneriness: meanspirited disagreeable contrariness
perverseness: deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline

Other hypernyms of orneriness include contrariness, perversity.

orneriness (noun)	perverseness (noun)
meanspirited disagreeable contrariness	deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
	deliberately deviating from what is good