Usually means: Intentional defiance of rules, authority.
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▸ noun:  (British spelling) The state or condition of being wilful; stubbornness.

Similar:
willfulness, fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulnesse, unwilfulness, unwillfulness, willedness, self-will, witfulness, self-willedness, more...

Opposite:
compliance, obedience, submissiveness

Types:
deliberate, reckless, negligent, culpable, wanton, culpably negligent, more...



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Similar:
willfulness, fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulnesse, unwilfulness, unwillfulness, willedness, self-will, witfulness, self-willedness, more...

Opposite:
compliance, obedience, submissiveness

Types:
deliberate, reckless, negligent, culpable, wanton, culpably negligent, more...



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