Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being contrary; untowardness; perverseness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being thwart; obliquity; perverseness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality or state of being thwart; obliquity; perverseness.

Etymologies

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thwart +‎ -ness

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