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intractability
CIDE DICTIONARY
intractability, n.
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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 disobedienceFor further exploring for "intractability" in Webster Dictionary Online