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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin