intransigence

Synonyms

bullheadedness, doggedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, obstinateness, opinionatedness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness, willfulness;

Near Antonyms

broad-mindedness, open-mindedness, reasonability, reasonableness, receptiveness, receptivity;

acceptance, acquiescence, flexibility, pliability;

compliance, docility, obedience, subordinateness, subordination;

submission, surrender, willingness, yielding;

slavishness, subservience, subserviency;

Related Words

perverseness, perversity, waywardness, wrongheadedness;

adamancy (also adamance), determination, implacability, inexorability, inflexibility, inveteracy, perseverance, persistence, persistency, relentlessness, resolve, single-mindedness, steadfastness, stick-to-itiveness, tenaciousness, tenacity;

firmness, hardness, rigor, rigorousness, sternness, strictness;

narrow-mindedness, rigidity, rigidness;

cantankerousness, contrariness, cussedness;

balkiness, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, insubordination, intractability, obstreperousness, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, unruliness;