Hypertext Webster Gateway: "perverseness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Perverseness \Per*verse"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being perverse. ``Virtue hath some
perverseness.'' --Donne.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
perverseness
n : deliberate unruliness [syn: {contrariness}, {perversity}]
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