intractability

intractability
    n 1: the trait of being hard to influence or control [syn:
         {intractability}, {intractableness}] [ant: {flexibility},
         {tractability}, {tractableness}]
    

Intractability \In*tract`a*bil"i*ty\, n.
   The quality of being intractable; intractableness. --Bp.
   Hurd.
   [1913 Webster]
    

62 Moby Thesaurus words for "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