English noun: intractableness | |||
1. | intractableness (attribute) the trait of being hard to influence or control | ||
Synonyms | intractability | ||
Broader (hypernym) | trait | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | balkiness, defiance, disobedience, fractiousness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinance, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, stubbornness, unmanageableness, unruliness, wildness, wilfulness, willfulness | ||
Antonyms | tractability, tractableness, flexibility | ||