self-will

Significat (Anglès)

The quality of being willful and ignoring opposition.

Conceptes

autocontrol

porfídia

força de voluntat

caparrudesa

entercament

entestament

testarrudesa

tossudesa

Sinònims

obstinacy

stubbornness

willfulness

self-command

pigheadedness

bullheadedness

possession

self-control

self-possession

wayward

willpower

will power

obstinance

capricious

arrogance

disobedience

volition

acting as one likes

wilful

wilfulness

mulishness

obduracy

obdurateness

insubordination

obstinateness

will

independence

Traduccions

ostinazione

Eigensinn

albedrío

ισχυρογνωμοσύνη

Willensäußerung

Überwindung

Selbstsucht

Willensregung

Wille

Willensentschluss

αυτοκυριαρχία

αυτοέλεγχος

eigener Wille

πείσμα

Wollen

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: self-wil

Heretat de anglès antic: sylfwill

Cognat amb alt alemany antic: selbwillo

Cognat amb nòrdic antic: sjalfvili

In summary

From Middle English self-wil, self-wille, from Old English sylfwill, selfwill, selfwille (“self-will”), from Proto-West Germanic *selbawilljō, from Proto-Germanic *selbawiljô (“self-will”), equivalent to self- + will. Cognate with Old High German selbwillo, selpwillo, Old Norse sjalfvili.