English > intractability: 1 sense > noun 1, attributeMeaning | The trait of being hard to influence or control. |
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Synonym | intractableness |
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Narrower | balkiness | likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly |
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defiance, rebelliousness | intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude |
disobedience | The trait of being unwilling to obey |
refractoriness, unmanageableness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy | The trait of being unmanageable |
stubbornness, obstinacy, obstinance, mulishness | The trait of being difficult to handle or overcome |
unruliness, fractiousness, willfulness, wilfulness | The trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline |
wildness | An intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature |
Broader | trait | A distinguishing feature of your personal nature |
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Opposite | tractability, tractableness, flexibility | The trait of being easily persuaded |
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Adjectives | intractable | not tractable |
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