Antonyms for adamancy


Grammar : Noun
Spell : ad-uh-muhnt, -mant
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæd ə mənt, -ˌmænt


Definition of adamancy

Origin :
  • mid-14c., from Old French adamant and directly from Latin adamantem (nominative adamas) "adamant, hardest iron, steel," also figuratively, of character, from Greek adamas (genitive adamantos) "unbreakable, inflexible" metaphoric of anything unalterable, also the name of a hypothetical hardest material, perhaps literally "invincible," from a- "not" + daman "to conquer, to tame" (see tame (adj.)), or else a word of foreign origin altered to conform to Greek.
  • Applied in antiquity to white sapphire, magnet (perhaps via confusion with Latin adamare "to love passionately"), steel, emery stone, and especially diamond (see diamond). The word was in Old English as aðamans "a very hard stone."
  • As in stubbornness : noun determination
  • As in grimness : noun stubbornness
  • As in implacability : noun stubbornness
  • As in implacableness : noun stubbornness
  • As in incompliance : noun stubbornness
  • As in incompliancy : noun stubbornness
  • As in inexorability : noun stubbornness
  • As in inexorableness : noun stubbornness
  • As in inflexibility : noun stubbornness
  • As in inflexibleness : noun stubbornness
  • As in intransigence : noun stubbornness
  • As in intransigency : noun stubbornness
  • As in obduracy : noun stubbornness
  • As in obdurateness : noun stubbornness
  • As in relentlessness : noun stubbornness
  • As in remorselessness : noun stubbornness
  • As in rigidity : noun stubbornness
  • As in rigidness : noun stubbornness

Synonyms for adamancy

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