0 the quality or act of unreasonably refusing to change your plan or opinion, or to listen to different opinions: --
Water restrictions are a result of the government's incompetence and pigheadedness regarding the building of dams.
Critics accused them of pigheadedness.
It is easy to assume that the mistakes were simply due to individual pigheadedness.
Are you so insecure about your own authority that you would resort to this level of pigheadedness?