inadaptability
Resistance to change
Inadaptability is the inability or failure to adapt—to adjust to new conditions, environments, or requirements.
The term appears in discussions of evolution, psychology, and organizational behavior: The species' inadaptability to climate change hastened its extinction.
His inadaptability to office culture cost him the promotion.
Quality of being unbending
- stiffnessResistance to deformation
- fixednessState of being stationary
- immutabilityInability to change
- unchangeabilityInability to be modified
inelasticity · intransigence · implacability · adamancy · unyieldingness · permanence · fixity · immobility
Lack of ability
- inabilityLack of capacity
- unfitnessLack of suitability
- unsuitabilityNot right for purpose
- incompetenceLack of required skill
inadequacy · deficiency · shortcoming · weakness · ineffectiveness · handicap · impairment · constraint
Unyielding adherence to position
- bullheadednessStubborn persistence despite reason
- pigheadednessStubborn refusal to yield
- mulishnessUnyielding resistance to persuasion
- obduracyStubborn refusal to yield
willfulness · recalcitrance · doggedness · pertinacity · contrariness · uncooperativeness · close-mindedness · single-mindedness
Adherence to inherited customs
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
- conventionalityAdherence to accepted customs
- hideboundRigidly adhering to tradition
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
backward-looking · reactionary · dogmatism · fundamentalism · conformity · establishment · precedent · insularity
inflexibility
Quality of being unbending
- stiffnessResistance to deformation
- fixednessState of being stationary
- immutabilityInability to change
unchangeability · inelasticity · intransigence · implacability · adamancy · unyieldingness · permanence · fixity · immobility · hardness
incapacity
Lack of ability
- inabilityLack of capacity
- unfitnessLack of suitability
- unsuitabilityNot right for purpose
incompetence · inadequacy · deficiency · shortcoming · weakness · ineffectiveness · handicap · impairment · constraint · restriction
obstinacy
Unyielding adherence to position
- bullheadednessStubborn persistence despite reason
- pigheadednessStubborn refusal to yield
- mulishnessUnyielding resistance to persuasion
obduracy · willfulness · recalcitrance · doggedness · pertinacity · contrariness · uncooperativeness · close-mindedness · single-mindedness · tenacity
traditionalism
Adherence to inherited customs
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
- conventionalityAdherence to accepted customs
- hideboundRigidly adhering to tradition
old-fashioned · backward-looking · reactionary · dogmatism · fundamentalism · conformity · establishment · precedent · insularity · parochialism
inadaptabilityadaptability
Ability to adjust readily
flexibility · adaptiveness · adjustability · versatility · pliability
inadaptabilityfluidity
State of flowing freely
agility · nimbleness · resourcefulness · changeability · mutability
adapt, adapts, adapted, adapting, adapter, adapters, adaptor, adaptors, adaptation