REFRACTORINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does refractoriness mean? 

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

1. the trait of being unmanageable

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REFRACTORINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of being unmanageable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

recalcitrance; recalcitrancy; refractoriness; unmanageableness

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

intractability; intractableness (the trait of being hard to influence or control)

Derivation:

refractory (stubbornly resistant to authority or control)

refractory (not responding to treatment)

 Context examples 

Agents used for the treatment or prevention of cardiac arrhythmias; they may effect the polarization-repolarization phase of the action potential, its excitability or refractoriness, or impulse conduction or membrane responsiveness within cardiac fibers.

(Antiarrhythmic Agent, NCI Thesaurus)