self-will

Signification (Anglais)

The quality of being willful and ignoring opposition.

Concepts

entêtement

obstination

volonté

opiniâtreté

self-control

volition

Synonymes

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

Traductions

Eigensinn

ισχυρογνωμοσύνη

ostinazione

albedrío

entestament

testarrudesa

força de voluntat

Eigensinnigkeit

entercament

Selbstsucht

Selbstüberwindung

Wille

Willensäußerung

Überwindung

tossudesa

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: self-wil

Hérité de ancien anglais: sylfwill

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: selbwillo

Appartenant à vieux norrois: 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.