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wilfulness

wilfulness noun: the state or condition of being wilful; stubbornness.

Noun

wilfulness (usually uncountable, plural wilfulnesses)

  1. (UK, usually) The state or condition of being wilful; stubbornness.
    • “I want ye all to know,” she said, with a clearing-up snuff, “dat it’s my will an’ pleasure to go right on doin’ my work jes’ de same; an’, Missis, please, I’ll allers put three eggs in de crullers, now; an’ I won’t turn de wash-basin down in de sink, but hang it jam-up on de nail; an’ I won’t pick...1859, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “The Practical Test”, in The Minister’s Wooing, New York, N.Y.: Derby and Jackson, […], →OCLC, page 177
    • Now Redworth believed in the soul of Diana. For him it burned, and it was a celestial radiance about her, unquenched by her shifting fortunes, her wilfulnesses and, it might be, errors.1885, George Meredith, “An Exhibition of Some Champions of the Stricken Lady”, in Diana of the Crossways […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall […], pages 176–177

wilfulness meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

wilfulness in Tamil

திண்ணக்கம்

wilfulness in Urdu

چالاکی, دغابازی, دھوکا بازی, فریب, حیلہ پروری, مکر

wilfulness in Kannada

ಯದೃಚ್ಛೆ

Forms of wilfulness

pluralwilfulnesses
alternative USwillfulness

Origin of wilfulness

From wilful + -ness.

Questions about wilfulness

What does wilfulness mean?
Wilfulness means the state or condition of being wilful; stubbornness.
What is wilfulness in Tamil?
Wilfulness in Tamil is திண்ணக்கம். See Wilfulness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wilfulness?
Wilfulness is a noun.
What is the plural of wilfulness?
The plural of wilfulness is wilfulnesses.

Words near wilfulness in the dictionary

  1. wilfuler
  2. wilfulest
  3. wilfuller
  4. wilfullest
  5. wilfully
  6. wilfulness
  7. wilfulnesse
  8. wilfulnesses
  9. wilga
  10. wilgas
  11. wilgie

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wilfulness (page history and authors); wilfulness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wilfulness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wilfulness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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