INTRACTABLENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The trait of being hard to influence or control

Synonyms:

intractability; intractableness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("intractableness" is a kind of...):

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intractableness"):

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)

Derivation:

intractable (not tractable; difficult to manage or mold)