intractability

n

1. intractableness, indocility, unsubmissiveness, insubmission, incompliance, incompli-ancy, uncooperativeness, nonconformity; stubbornness, obstinateness, obstinacy, pervicaciousness, pig-head-edness, mulishness, obdurateness, hard-headedness, headstrongness, willfulness, waywardness, wrong-headedness; cross-grainedness, perverseness, perversity, contrariness, frowardness, resistance, opposition, res-tiveness, balkiness.

2. disobedience, refractoriness, fractiousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, contumaciousness, contumaci-ty, contumacy; rebelliousness, rebellion, insubordination, defiance, defiantness, recusancy; uncompliableness, indomitability, indomitableness, unmanageableness, ungovernability, ungovernableness; wildness, unruliness, rowdiness, rowdyishness, disorderliness; difficulty, impossibility, impossibleness, incorrigibility, incorrigibleness, badness.

3. intransigence, intransigency, uncompromisingness, irreconcilability, irreconcilableness, implacability, implacableness, inexorability, inexorableness; unyieldingness, unbendingness, rigidity, rigidness, strictness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, hard-and-fastness; immovability, immovableness, unalterableness, unchangeability; hardness, toughness, firmness, steadfastness; doggedness, tenaciousness, tenacity, persistence, persistency, insistence, pertinaciousness, pertinacity; determination, determinedness, resolvedness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve.