noun
1. deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
• Syn: ↑contrariness, ↑perverseness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑perverse (for: ↑perverseness), ↑perverse, ↑contrary (for: ↑contrariness)
• Hypernyms: ↑unruliness, ↑fractiousness, ↑willfulness, ↑wilfulness
• Hyponyms: ↑cussedness, ↑orneriness
2. deliberately deviating from what is good
-
there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism
• Syn: ↑perverseness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑perverse (for: ↑perverseness), ↑perverse
Useful english dictionary. 2012.