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intracerebral |
intracolic |
intracranial |
intracranial aneurysm |
intracranial cavity |
intractability
| intractable
| intractableness
| intractably
| intractile
| intracutaneous
intractability
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun intractability has 1 sense
- intractability(n = noun.attribute) intractableness - the trait of being hard to influence or control; Array is a kind of trait
has particulars: recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, unmanageableness, wildness, defiance, rebelliousness, fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness, balkiness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinance, stubbornness, disobedience
Derived form adjective intractable1
Antonym: tractability
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 disobedience
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