perversity

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
perversity
    n 1: deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to
         guidance or discipline [syn: {contrariness}, {perversity},
         {perverseness}]
    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: {perversity},
       {perverseness}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Perversity \Per*ver"si*ty\, n. [L. perversitas: cf. F.
   perversit['e].]
   The quality or state of being perverse; perverseness.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "perversity":
      antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, bearishness, bitchiness,
      cantankerousness, churlishness, clashing, collision, conflict,
      confrontation, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication,
      contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, contrast,
      counterposition, crabbedness, crankiness, cross-purposes,
      crossness, crustiness, cussedness, difficultness, disagreeability,
      disagreement, discrepancy, dourness, excitability, fractiousness,
      frowardness, hostility, huffiness, huffishness, inconsistency,
      inimicalness, irascibility, irritability, meanness, oppositeness,
      opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, orneriness,
      perverseness, perversite, polarity, repugnance, showdown,
      snappishness, stuffiness, sulkiness, sullenness, testiness,
      ugliness, waspishness, waywardness, wrongheadedness
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