CONTRARINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contrariness mean? 

• CONTRARINESS (noun)
  The noun CONTRARINESS has 2 senses:

1. deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline

2. a fussy and eccentric disposition

  Familiarity information: CONTRARINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTRARINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

contrariness; perverseness; perversity

Hypernyms ("contrariness" is a kind of...):

fractiousness; unruliness; wilfulness; willfulness (the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contrariness"):

cussedness; orneriness (meanspirited disagreeable contrariness)

Derivation:

contrary (resistant to guidance or discipline)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A fussy and eccentric disposition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

contrariness; crankiness; crotchetiness; grumpiness

Hypernyms ("contrariness" is a kind of...):

ill nature (a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition)