Determination vs. Stubborn — What's the Difference?

Determination is a positive emotional feeling that involves persevering towards a difficult goal in spite of obstacles. Determination occurs prior to goal attainment and serves to motivate behavior that will help achieve one's goal.

Having or showing dogged determination not to change one's attitude or position on something, especially in spite of good arguments or reasons to do so

The quality of being determined; firmness of purpose

Refusing to change one's mind or course of action despite pressure to do so; unyielding or resolute.

The process of establishing something exactly by calculation or research

Characterized by a refusal to change one's mind or course of action; dogged or persistent

The controlling or deciding of the nature or outcome of something

Difficult to treat or deal with; resistant to treatment or effort

The cessation of an estate or interest.

Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting; persistent in doing something.

A tendency to move in a fixed direction.

Of materials: physically stiff and inflexible; not easily melted or worked.

Firmness of purpose; resolve

(informal) Stubbornness.

A fixed intention or resolution

A disease of citrus trees characterized by stunted growth and misshapen fruit, caused by Spiroplasma citri.

The ascertaining or fixing of the quantity, quality, position, or character of something

Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; - said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule.

The result of such ascertaining.

Tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield

The act of making or arriving at a decision

Not responding to treatment;

The decision reached

Difficult to treat or deal with;

The settling of a question or case by an authoritative decision or pronouncement, especially by a judicial body

Persisting in a reactionary stand

The decision or pronouncement made.

The bringing about of a result or outcome

(Archaic) A fixed movement or tendency toward an object or end.

The defining of a concept through its constituent elements.

The qualification of a concept or proposition to render it more definite or specific.

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.

The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.

(countable) The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.

(countable) That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.

A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part

(countable) The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.

The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.

The addition of a distinguishing feature to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent.

The act of determining the relations of an object, such as genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification

Bringing to an end; termination; limit.

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

Bringing to an end; termination; limit.

Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.

The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.

The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.

That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.

A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part; as, a determination of blood to the head.

The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.; as, the determination of the ohm or of the wave length of light; the determination of the salt in sea water, or the oxygen in the air.

The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.

The act of determining the relations of an object, as regards genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification; as, I am indebted to a friend for the determination of most of these shells.

The act of determining the properties of something

The quality of being determined to do or achieve something;

A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration;

The act of making up your mind about something;