| NOUN | attribute | intractableness, intractability | the trait of being hard to influence or control |
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| Meaning | The trait of being hard to influence or control. | |
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| Synonym | intractability | |
| Narrower | balkiness | likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly |
| 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 |
| Opposite | tractability, tractableness, flexibility | The trait of being easily persuaded |
| Adjectives | intractable | not tractable |
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