Definition of "opinionativeness" [opinionativeness]

• The state or character of being opinionative; excessive attachment to one's own opinions; obstinacy in opinion. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He respected the power of nature and fortune, and ascribed to it his superiority, instead of valuing himself, like inferior men, on his opinionativeness, and waging war with nature."
• "The many of her nominal friends and admirers who at heart dislike her, prophesy that in a few years she will be coarse, and say that she is already too masculine; but the few who love her, think that she will improve both in person and mind, as she rubs off the pride and self-opinionativeness of twenty years of country life against the wholesome iron of society and the world."
• "THEODOTUS (in a squeak which he makes impressive by sheer self-opinionativeness)."