Meaning & use
Waywardness
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The quality of being difficult to control or predict; willful and persistent disobedience.
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The teacher struggled to manage the waywardness of her most rebellious student.
His waywardness in youth gave way to steady discipline in adulthood.
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Derived from 'wayward,' which originally meant turned away from the right way, implying a stubborn deviation from expected behavior.
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unrulinesswillfulness
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