perverseness

Noun perverseness has 2 senses

• perverseness(n = noun.attribute) contrariness, perversity - deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline;
is a kind of fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness
has particulars: cussedness, orneriness
Derived forms adjective perverse₂, adjective perverse₁

• perverseness(n = noun.attribute) perversity - deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism"
is a kind of evil, evilness
Derived form adjective perverse₃