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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, bearishness, bitchiness, cantankerousness, churlishness, clashing, collision, conflict, confrontation, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, counterposition, crabbedness, crankiness, cross-purposes, crossness, crustiness, cussedness, difficultness, disagreeability, disagreement, discrepancy, dourness, excitability, fractiousness, frowardness, hostility, huffiness, huffishness, inconsistency, inimicalness, irascibility, irritability, meanness, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, orneriness, perverseness, perversite, polarity, repugnance, showdown, snappishness, stuffiness, sulkiness, sullenness, testiness, ugliness, waspishness, waywardness, wrongheadedness
Dictionary Results for perversity:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
perversity
    n 1: deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to
         guidance or discipline [syn: contrariness, perversity,
         perverseness]
    2: deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always
       be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain
       satisfaction from bullying and terrorism" [syn: perversity,
       perverseness]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Perversity \Per*ver"si*ty\, n. [L. perversitas: cf. F.
   perversit['e].]
   The quality or state of being perverse; perverseness.
   [1913 Webster]

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