Englishobstinacy
noun
Urquhart was irritated by her obstinacy:
stubbornness, inflexibility, intransigence, intractability, intractableness, obduracy, mulishness, pig-headedness, bull-headedness, wilfulness, self-will, strong-mindedness, contrariness, perversity, perverseness, uncooperativeness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, unmanageableness, stiffness, rigidity, steeliness, implacability, relentlessness, immovability, persistence, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness, doggedness, pertinacity, pertinaciousness, single-mindedness, firmness, steadfastness, determination;
British, informal bloody-mindedness, bolshiness, stroppiness;
archaic frowardness, contumaciousness, contumacy;
obstinacy Oxford Dictionary of English