Noun: perverseness pu(r)'vurs-nus
- Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
"Her perverseness in refusing good advice led to her downfall";
- contrariness, perversity
- Deliberately deviating from what is good
"there will always be a few people who, through macho perverseness, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism";
- perversity
Type of: evil, evilness, fractiousness, ill, unruliness, wilfulness [Brit, Cdn], willfulness [N. Amer]
Encyclopedia: Perverseness