anal-retentiveness, perverseness, perversity, waywardness, wrongheadedness

adamancy (also adamance), determination, implacability, inexorability, inflexibility, inveteracy, perseverance, persistence, persistency, relentlessness, resolve, single-mindedness, steadfastness, stick-to-itiveness, tenaciousness, tenacity

firmness, hardness, rigor, rigorousness, sternness, strictness

narrow-mindedness, rigidity, rigidness

bloody-mindedness [chiefly British], cantankerousness, contrariness, cussedness

balkiness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, immovability, immovableness, insubordination, intractability, obstreperousness, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, unruliness