Associations to the word «Perverseness»

Wiktionary

PERVERSENESS, noun. The quality of being perverse; obstinacy or doggedness

Dictionary definition

PERVERSENESS, noun. Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline.
PERVERSENESS, noun. Deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats