intractability
noun[U]
formaluk/ɪnˌtræk.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/ɪnˌtræk.təˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/thequalityof being verydifficultorimpossibletocontrol,manage, orsolve:
the intractability of manysocialproblems
Their intractabilitymeantthat they couldn't come to anagreementin thebestinterestof thechild.
See
intractable
- Votersaskedthecandidatesabout the intractability ofproblemslikehealthcareorimmigration.
- They areworndown by thesheerintractability of some of thework.
- The intractability of thecrisishasexhaustedthepatienceof theinternationalcommunity.
Complexity
- advanced
- all-singing
- baroque
- be more tosomethingthan meets the eyeidiom
- bleeding-edge
- delicacy
- finicky
- high-tech
- indirectly
- insolubility
- intricacy
- onerousness
- ornate
- ornately
- over-elaborate
- over-fussy
- tortuously
- tortuousness
- ultra-sophisticated
- wheels within wheelsidiom