perverseness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
    contrariness; perversity.
  2. noun deliberately deviating from what is good
    perversity.
    • there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism

WordNet


Per*verse"ness noun
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being perverse. "Virtue hath some perverseness." Donne.

Webster 1913