The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stiff-neckedness \Stiff"-neck`ed*ness\, n. The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.
Usage examples of "stiff-neckedness".
She saw only a silly stiff-neckedness which observed facts but smiled and refused to look them in the face.
The same unthinking rudeness masquerading as blunt speaking, the same stiff-neckedness, the same petty malice.
I was wondering with myself whether, night after night, they would thus go on dancing to all eternity, and whether I should not one day have to join them because of my stiff-neckedness, when the eyes of the children came open, and they sprang to their feet, wide awake.
Now, the same annoying yet admirable stiff-neckedness that gave us the Jacobites, the force de frappe, Airbus, and ARRET signs in Quebec, has brought us a really cool operating system.