obstinacy
/ˈɑbstɪnəsi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He finished only through a mixture of determined obstinacy and ingenuity."
- ""I don't know where," replied the girl. "Then I do," said Sikes, more in the spirit of obstinacy than because he had any real objection."
- "1877, Leo Tolstoy (author), David Magarshack (translator), Anna Karenina, part 6, ch 12, His hand closed, he drew back, and his face assumed a still more stubborn expression. "For you it's a matter of obstinacy," she said, looking intently at him and suddenly finding the right word for the expression of his face which exasperated her so much."
- "As Valentinov and others pointed out, the extreme obstinacy with which Lenin defended materialism was rooted not only in Marxism but in the tradition of the Russian materialists, especially Chernyshevsky, whose philosophy was a popularization of Feuerbach."
- "When the obstinacy of buffalo, which usually numbers between fifty and five hundred, is searching for food and water, the pathfinders, as the experienced cows are called, lead them to their destinations."
- "🔥 An obstinacy of Bison stampeding down a road"
Etymology
From obstinate + -cy.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɑbstɪnəsi/
- British English: /ˈɒbstɪnəsi/