(n.) The quality of being intractable; intractableness.

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