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What does willfulness mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality of being willful; obstinacy.
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Too much attention given to the only child in a family not only blinds parents' ability to reason and clouds their judgement, it also encourages the child's willfulness.
Is it willfulness, stubbornness, or just an attempt to be in control at the expense of everything and everyone else?
Otherwise, willfulness born of emotion could easily sway you off the path.
Whether out of innocence or willfulness, it usually means we don't have all the information.
And then I knew how heavily Carrie's willfulness had weighed on that patient heart.
This sort of undertaking is not an exercise in constitutional interpretation but an act of judicial willfulness that has no logical stopping point.

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