pertinaciousness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pertinacious + -ness.
Noun
[edit]pertinaciousness (uncountable)
- The state or characteristic of being pertinacious.
- 1805, Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, Penguin Classics, published 1991, →ISBN, page 289:
- I had too much experience of my father's pertinaciousness ever to hope for a change in his views.
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- “pertinaciousness”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.