Intractability

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being intractable; intractableness. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the trait of being hard to influence or control wordnet

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civil disobediencecontumaciousnesscontumacydefiancedisobediencefractiousness

Etymology

From intractable + -ity or in- + tractability.

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