intransigency

in·tran·si·gent

also in·tran·si·geant  (ĭn-trăn′sə-jənt, -zə-)

adj.

Refusing to moderate a position, especially an extreme position; uncompromising.

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[French intransigeant, from Spanish intransigente : in-, not (from Latin; see in-¹) + transigente, present participle of transigir, to compromise (from Latin trānsigere, to come to an agreement : trāns-, trans- + agere, to drive; see ag- in Indo-European roots).]

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in·tran′si·gence, in·tran′si·gen·cy n.

in·tran′si·gent n.

in·tran′si·gent·ly adv.

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Thesaurus

Noun

1.

intransigency - the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise intransigence bullheadedness, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness, obstinacy, obstinance - resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires

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intransigency

noun

The quality or state of being stubbornly inflexible:

die-hardism, grimness, implacability, implacableness, incompliance, incompliancy, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence, obduracy, obdurateness, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigidity, rigidness, stubbornness.

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