intractability

Noun
Synonyms: intractableness

Open English WordNet

Noun (1)

  1. the trait of being hard to influence or controlSynonyms: intractablenessOpposite tractablenessType of traitKinds defiance, balkiness, stubbornness, unruliness, wildness, disobedience, restiveness, refractoriness

Related words intractable adjective

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

In·tract′a·bil′i·ty noun

The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Richard Hurd

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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