intractableness
Resistant to management
The quality of being difficult to manage, control, or resolve.
Intractableness describes stubborn resistance to handling or treatment—whether in people, problems, or materials.
The intractableness of the dispute frustrated negotiators for years.
The word is rare; intractability is the more common noun form.
Defiance of established power
- insubordinationDefying workplace authority
- disobedienceRefusal to follow orders
- recalcitranceStubborn refusal to obey
- contrarinessHabitual disposition to oppose
dissent · nonconformity · resistance · opposition · contumacy · unruliness · noncompliance · uncooperativeness
Refusal to yield
- inflexibilityQuality of being unbending
- pigheadednessStubborn refusal to yield
- mulishnessUnyielding resistance to persuasion
- bullheadednessStubborn persistence despite reason
unyieldingness · adamancy · obduracy · willfulness · perverseness · hardheadedness · implacability · doggedness
Cannot be figured out
- complexityState of being complicated
- insolubilityInability to dissolve
- impossibilityState of being unachievable
- hopelessnessState without hope
impenetrability · unfeasibility · insurmountability · unworkability · thorniness · knottiness · perplexity · obstinacy
Resistance to deformation
- inflexibilityQuality of being unbending
- hardnessResistance to penetration
- firmnessResistance to deformation
- immovabilityInability to be shifted
inelasticity · unbendingness · unyieldingness · strictness · fixedness · unalterability · unchangeability · invariability
rebellion
Defiance of established power
- insubordinationDefying workplace authority
- disobedienceRefusal to follow orders
- recalcitranceStubborn refusal to obey
contrariness · dissent · nonconformity · resistance · opposition · contumacy · unruliness · noncompliance · uncooperativeness · waywardness
stubbornness
Refusal to yield
- inflexibilityQuality of being unbending
- pigheadednessStubborn refusal to yield
- mulishnessUnyielding resistance to persuasion
bullheadedness · unyieldingness · adamancy · obduracy · willfulness · perverseness · hardheadedness · implacability · doggedness · pertinacity
unsolvability
Cannot be figured out
- complexityState of being complicated
- insolubilityInability to dissolve
- impossibilityState of being unachievable
hopelessness · impenetrability · unfeasibility · insurmountability · unworkability · thorniness · knottiness · perplexity · obstinacy · stubbornness
stiffness
Resistance to deformation
- inflexibilityQuality of being unbending
- hardnessResistance to penetration
- firmnessResistance to deformation
immovability · inelasticity · unbendingness · unyieldingness · strictness · fixedness · unalterability · unchangeability · invariability · constancy
intractablenesstractableness
Ease of control
tractability · manageability · controllability · handleability · workability
intractablenessdocility
Readiness to submit
obedience · compliance · submissiveness · tractability · meekness
intractablenesstractability
Readiness to be guided
solvability · manageability · resolvability · workability · feasibility
contract, attract, attractive, extract, tract, attraction, subtract, retract, subtraction