Intractability

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Intractability \In*tract`a*bil"i*ty\, n.
     The quality of being intractable; intractableness. --Bp.
     Hurd.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  intractability
       n : the trait of being hard to influence or control [syn: {intractableness}]
           [ant: {tractability}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "intractability":
     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