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All inflexibility synonyms

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noun inflexibility

  • intransigence — the state or quality of being intransigent, or refusing to compromise or agree; inflexibility: No agreement was reached because of intransigence on both sides.
  • obstinacy — the quality or state of being obstinate; stubbornness.
  • relentlessness — that does not relent; unyieldingly severe, strict, or harsh; unrelenting: a relentless enemy.
  • perseverance — steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
  • contumacy — obstinate and wilful rebelliousness or resistance to authority; insubordination; disobedience
  • pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
  • grimness — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
  • inexorableness — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
  • mulishness — of or like a mule, as being very stubborn, obstinate, or intractable.
  • bull-headed — blindly obstinate; stubborn, headstrong, or stupid
  • obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
  • rigidness — stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard: a rigid strip of metal.
  • pertinacity — the quality of being pertinacious; persistence.
  • doggedness — persistent in effort; stubbornly tenacious: a dogged worker.
  • intransigency — a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
  • rigidity — stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard: a rigid strip of metal.
  • inexorability — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
  • indomitability — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
  • implacability — not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable: an implacable enemy.
  • incompliance — not compliant; unyielding.
  • obdurate — unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
  • remorseless — without remorse; merciless; pitiless; relentless.
  • adamancy — a state of resoluteness
  • die hard — If you say that habits or attitudes die hard, you mean that they take a very long time to disappear or change, so that it may not be possible to get rid of them completely.
  • stubbornness — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
  • rigour — strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people.
  • rigor — strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people.
  • dogmatism — dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
  • implacableness — The quality of being implacable.
  • stiffness — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
  • hardness — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
  • firmness — not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
  • tautness — tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
  • tension — the act of stretching or straining.
  • solidness — having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness), as a geometrical body or figure.
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