INTRACTABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intractability mean? 

• INTRACTABILITY (noun)
  The noun INTRACTABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the trait of being hard to influence or control

  Familiarity information: INTRACTABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTRACTABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of being hard to influence or control

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

intractability; intractableness

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

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

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

recalcitrance; recalcitrancy; refractoriness; unmanageableness (the trait of being unmanageable)

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)

Antonym:

tractability (the trait of being easily persuaded)

Derivation:

intractable (not tractable; difficult to manage or mold)