Usually means: Intentional, deliberate action or behavior.
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  1. willfulness: Merriam-Webster
  2. willfulness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. willfulness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. willfulness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Willfulness, willfulness: Wordnik
  6. willfulness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. willfulness: Wiktionary
  8. willfulness: Dictionary.com
  9. Willfulness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. willfulness: Rhymezone
  11. willfulness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. willfulness: FreeDictionary.org
  13. willfulness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. willfulness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. willfulness: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. willfulness: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Willfulness)

▸ noun:  (American spelling) Alternative form of wilfulness [(British spelling) The state or condition of being wilful; stubbornness.]

Similar:
unruliness, fractiousness, wilfulness, recklessness, wilful, stubbornness, rebelliousness, contrariness, pigheadedness, unreasonableness, more...

Opposite:
docility, submissiveness, obedience, meekness

Adjectives:
own, human, sheer, stubborn, such, mere, personal, certain, individual, brutal, arbitrary

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Similar:
unruliness, fractiousness, wilfulness, recklessness, wilful, stubbornness, rebelliousness, contrariness, pigheadedness, unreasonableness, more...

Opposite:
docility, submissiveness, obedience, meekness

Adjectives:
own, human, sheer, stubborn, such, mere, personal, certain, individual, brutal, arbitrary



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