Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun perverseness

2 senses of perverseness

Sense 1
contrariness, perversity, perverseness -- (deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline)
       => unruliness, fractiousness, willfulness, wilfulness -- (the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline)

Sense 2
perversity, perverseness -- (deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism")
       => evil, evilness -- (the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world")