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Obstreperousness

Obstreperous \Ob*strep"er*ous\, a. [L. obstreperus, from obstrepere to make a noise at; ob (see Ob-) + strepere to make a noise.]

  1. Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; clamorous; noisy; vociferous. ``The obstreperous city.''
    --Wordsworth. ``Obstreperous approbation.''
    --Addison.

    Beating the air with their obstreperous beaks.
    --B. Jonson.

  2. Resistant to control; unruly. [PJC] -- Ob*strep"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Ob*strep"er*ous*ness, n.

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obstreperousness

n. The quality of being obstreperous.

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obstreperousness

n. noisy defiance

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Paul Dirac, Wolfgang Pauli, Julian Schwinger, Freeman Dyson, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, and Feynman, to name a few, struggled relentlessly to find a mathematical formalism capable of dealing with this microscopic obstreperousness.