perversity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A deliberate tendency to behave in an unreasonable or contrary way.

   With characteristic perversity, she chose the one option everyone had advised against.

2. 2
   noun

   Stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline.

   His perversity made him impossible to manage in the classroom.

From perverse + -ity, from Middle French perversité, from Latin perversitās.

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