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INTRACTABLENESS

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

1. the trait of being hard to influence or control

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

• INTRACTABLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

intractableness ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

The trait of being hard to influence or control

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

intractability; intractableness

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

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

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

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)

"There's no accounting for taste."
(English proverb)
"Let sleeping dogs lie."
(Agatha Christie)
"Many are the roads that do not lead to the heart."
(Arabic proverb)
"Once a horse is old, ticks and flies flock to it."
(Corsican proverb)

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