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obstinance

noun

• stubbornness
• obstinacy
• mulishness
• bullheadedness
• pigheadedness
• self-will
• firmness
• firmness of purpose
• intractability
• intractableness
• resoluteness
• resolution
• resolve

sounds kind of like

• obstinacy
• officiating
• opisthotonos
• oppositeness