perversity

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

noun

1. deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
• Syn:
contrariness, perverseness
• Derivationally related forms:
perverse (for: perverseness), perverse, contrary (for: contrariness)
• Hypernyms:
unruliness, fractiousness, willfulness, wilfulness
• Hyponyms:
cussedness, orneriness
2. deliberately deviating from what is good
- there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism
• Syn:
perverseness
• Derivationally related forms:
perverse (for: perverseness), perverse
• Hypernyms:
evil, evilness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  perverseness, contrariness