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BALKINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("balkiness" is a kind of...):
intractability; intractableness (the trait of being hard to influence or control)
Derivation:
balky (stopping short and refusing to go on)
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