'Intractability' definitions:
Definition of 'intractability'
From: WordNet
noun
The trait of being hard to influence or control [syn: intractability, intractableness] [ant: flexibility, tractability, tractableness]
Definition of 'Intractability'
From: GCIDE
- Intractability \In*tract`a*bil"i*ty\, n. The quality of being intractable; intractableness. --Bp. Hurd. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'intractability'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- civil disobedience,
- contumaciousness,
- contumacy,
- defiance,
- disobedience,
- fractiousness,
- frowardness,
- immovability,
- immutability,
- incorrigibility,
- indiscipline,
- indocility,
- indomitability,
- inductility,
- inelasticity,
- inextensibility,
- inflexibility,
- infraction,
- infringement,
- insubordination,
- insuppressibility,
- irrepressibility,
- irresilience,
- irresiliency,
- lawbreaking,
- lawlessness,
- naughtiness,
- noncompliance,
- nonconformity,
- noncooperation,
- nonobedience,
- obstreperousness,
- passive resistance,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- recusancy,
- refractoriness,
- resistance,
- restiveness,
- shrewishness,
- stubbornness,
- transgression,
- unalterability,
- unbendingness,
- uncontrollability,
- uncooperativeness,
- unduteousness,
- undutifulness,
- ungovernability,
- unlimberness,
- unmalleability,
- unmanageability,
- unmoldableness,
- unpliability,
- unruliness,
- unsubmissiveness,
- untamableness,
- unyieldingness,
- violation,
- waywardness,
- wildness,
- willful disobedience