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perverseness vs willfulness

willfulness vs perverseness

perverseness and willfulness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
perverseness Yes No No No
willfulness Yes No No No
As nouns, willfulness is a hypernym of perverseness; that is, willfulness is a word with a broader meaning than perverseness:
  • perverseness: deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
  • willfulness: the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
Other hypernyms of perverseness include fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness.
perverseness (noun) willfulness (noun)
deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
deliberately deviating from what is good
Difference between perverseness and willfulness

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