intractability

Other forms: intractabilities

Definitions of intractability

1. noun

   the trait of being hard to influence or control
   synonyms: intractableness

   antonyms:

   tractability

   the trait of being easily persuaded

   types:

   recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, unmanageableness

   the trait of being unmanageable

   wildness

   an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature

   defiance, rebelliousness

   intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude

   fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness

   the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline

   balkiness

   likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly

   mulishness, obstinacy, obstinance, stubbornness

   the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome

   disobedience

   the trait of being unwilling to obey

   insubordination

   defiance of authority

   obstreperousness

   noisy defiance

   contrariness, perverseness, perversity

   deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline

   badness, mischievousness, naughtiness

   an attribute of mischievous children

   wildness

   an unruly disposition to do as one pleases

   type of:

   trait

   a distinguishing feature of your personal nature