'Willfulness' definitions:
Definition of 'willfulness'
(from WordNet)
noun
The trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline [syn: unruliness, fractiousness, willfulness, wilfulness]
Definition of 'Willfulness'
From: GCIDE
- Willful \Will"ful\, a. [Will + full.] [Written also wilful.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder. --Foxe. [1913 Webster]
- In willful poverty chose to lead his life. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who, for my willful crime, art banished hence. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as, a willful man or horse. [1913 Webster] -- {Will"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Will"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]