frowardness

froward +‎ -ness

frowardness (usually uncountable, plural frowardnesses)

1. The quality of being froward.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures 4 & 5:

     [W]hereas Christian theology has always considered frowardness to be the essential vice of this part of human nature, the mind-curers say that the mark of the beast in it is fear; and this is what gives such an entirely new religious turn to their persuasion.

• forwardness