Meaning of INTRACTABILITY
WordNet Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | [n] the trait of being hard to influence or control |
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| Synonyms: | | intractableness |
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| Antonyms: | | flexibility, tractability, tractableness | |
| See Also: | | balkiness, defiance, disobedience, fractiousness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinance, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, stubbornness, trait, unmanageableness, unruliness, wildness, wilfulness, willfulness | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \In*tract`a*bil"i*ty\, n.
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. --Bp.
Hurd.
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| Related Terms: | | 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 |
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