incorrigibility
Cannot be corrected
Incorrigibility is the quality of being impossible to correct, reform, or improve.
The word typically describes persistent bad behavior that resists all attempts at change: The school cited his incorrigibility as grounds for expulsion.
It can also apply to deeply ingrained habits or attitudes: Her incorrigibility in matters of punctuality was legendary.
State without hope
- impenitenceLack of contrition
- unrepentanceLack of remorse
- hardnessResistance to penetration
- obduracyStubborn refusal to yield
incurability · unchangeability · perdition · depravity · wickedness · shamelessness · remorselessness
Unyielding adherence to position
- intransigenceRefusal to compromise
- obduracyStubborn refusal to yield
- pigheadednessStubborn refusal to yield
- bullheadednessStubborn persistence despite reason
mulishness · adamancy · immovability · intractability · hardheadedness · pertinacity · perverseness · unbendingness
Defiance of established power
- disobedienceRefusal to follow orders
- insubordinationDefying workplace authority
- recalcitranceStubborn refusal to obey
- noncomplianceFailure to follow requirements
resistance · contumacy · mutiny · dissent · opposition · willfulness · nonconformity · disaffection
Impossible to restrain
- intractabilityResistance to management
- indisciplineLack of self-control
- unrulinessDifficult to manage behavior
- wildnessUntamed, uncontrolled state
rowdiness · boisterousness · disorderliness · fractiousness · troublesomeness · ungovernability · lawlessness · waywardness
hopelessness
State without hope
- impenitenceLack of contrition
- unrepentanceLack of remorse
- hardnessResistance to penetration
obduracy · incurability · unchangeability · perdition · depravity · wickedness · shamelessness · remorselessness
obstinacy
Unyielding adherence to position
- intransigenceRefusal to compromise
- obduracyStubborn refusal to yield
- pigheadednessStubborn refusal to yield
bullheadedness · mulishness · adamancy · immovability · intractability · hardheadedness · pertinacity · perverseness · unbendingness · willfulness
rebellion
Defiance of established power
- disobedienceRefusal to follow orders
- insubordinationDefying workplace authority
- recalcitranceStubborn refusal to obey
noncompliance · resistance · contumacy · mutiny · dissent · opposition · willfulness · nonconformity · disaffection · insurgence
uncontrollability
Impossible to restrain
- intractabilityResistance to management
- indisciplineLack of self-control
- unrulinessDifficult to manage behavior
wildness · rowdiness · boisterousness · disorderliness · fractiousness · troublesomeness · ungovernability · lawlessness · waywardness · incompliance
- status offensestruancy, curfew violation, underage drinking, breaking curfew, minor in possession
incorrigibilityreformability
Capacity for amendment
redeemability · correctability · amendability · recoverability · salvageability
incorrigibilityteachability
Receptiveness to guidance
educability · trainability · docility · receptivity · open-mindedness
incorrigibilitytractability
Readiness to be guided
manageability · compliance · obedience · governability · controllability
correct, correction, corrected, correcting, correctness, incorrectly, corrects, corrective, incorrigible