" single-mindedness "

1: as in relentlessness, perseverance;

•  Synonyms : 

•  adamancy,

•  determination,

•  implacability,

•  inexorability,

•  inflexibility,

•  inveteracy,

•  perseverance,

•  persistence,

•  persistency,

•  relentlessness,

•  resolve,

•  steadfastness,

•  stick-to-itiveness,

•  tenaciousness,

•  tenacity,

•  anal-retentiveness,

•  perverseness,

•  perversity,

•  waywardness,

•  wrongheadedness,

•  firmness,

•  hardness,

•  rigor,

•  rigorousness,

•  sternness,

•  strictness,

•  bullheadedness,

•  doggedness,

•  hardheadedness,

•  intransigence,

•  mulishness,

•  obduracy,

•  obdurateness,

•  obstinacy,

•  obstinateness,

•  opinionatedness,

•  pertinaciousness,

•  pertinacity,

•  pigheadedness,

•  self-opinionatedness,

•  self-will,

•  stubbornness,

•  willfulness,

•  narrow-mindedness,

•  rigidity,

•  rigidness,

•  bloody-mindedness,

•  cantankerousness,

•  contrariness,

•  cussedness,

•  balkiness,

•  contumacy,

•  defiance,

•  disobedience,

•  frowardness,

•  immovability,

•  immovableness,

•  insubordination,

•  intractability,

•  obstreperousness,

•  rebelliousness,

•  recalcitrance,

•  recalcitrancy,

•  refractoriness,

•  unruliness

•  Antonyms : 

•  broad-mindedness,

•  open-mindedness,

•  reasonability,

•  reasonableness,

•  receptiveness,

•  receptivity,

•  acceptance,

•  acquiescence,

•  flexibility,

•  pliability,

•  pliableness,

•  pliancy,

•  pliantness,

•  compliance,

•  docility,

•  obedience,

•  subordinateness,

•  subordination,

•  submission,

•  surrender,

•  willingness,

•  yielding,

•  slavishness,

•  subservience,

•  subserviency

1: fully committed to achieving a goal;

  * e.g., " ... every successful reform movement has been spearheaded by a single-minded activist who refused to accept defeat "

•  Synonyms : 

•  bent (on or upon),

•  bound,

•  decisive,

•  determined,

•  do-or-die,

•  firm,

•  hell-bent (on or upon),

•  intent,

•  out,

•  purposeful,

•  resolute,

•  resolved,

•  set

•  Antonyms : 

•  faltering,

•  hesitant,

•  indecisive,

•  irresolute,

•  undetermined,

•  unresolved,

•  vacillating,

•  wavering,

•  weak-kneed